The Community of Anttrewam is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its feral children, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical, devout population of 516 million Anttrewamians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Anttrewamian economy, worth 13.6 trillion forkes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 26,448 forkes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There have been reports of people marrying housepets, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, and ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Anttrewamian pirates. Crime is almost non-existent. Anttrewam's national animal is the reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Anttrewam is ranked 47,477^th in the world and 188^th in the Outback for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,152.89 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.