The Empire of Ansoku is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Lotus with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and daily referendums. The compassionate, humorless population of 10.747 billion Ansoks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tenno City. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ansokuan economy, worth a remarkable 2,148 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 199,947 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, nine out of ten citizens of Ansoku answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and the transition from trojan horses to regular old horses is on track. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ansoku's national animal is the Kavat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Wizardology.

Ansoku is ranked 11,116^th in the world and 14^th in Lands End for Highest Average Incomes, with 199,947.9 Standard Monetary Units.