The Space Dreaming Miners of Anthraxite is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Cole Firemost with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 8.549 billion Anthraxiteans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phoenisbourg. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Anthraxitean economy, worth 918 trillion Anthraxist Pounds a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,383 Anthraxist Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, the countryside is shrouded by wind farms, and tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anthraxite's national animal is the Axis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Liberal Theism.

Anthraxite is ranked 21,950^th in the world and 283^rd in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.15 law-abiding acts per hour.