The Federal Socialist Republic of Astana-Anders is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Lord President Fide Thomas Rush with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.816 billion Astanais are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Omni City. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Astanai economy, worth a remarkable 1,664 trillion Liens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 129,896 Liens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime is totally unknown. Astana-Anders's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Astana-Anders is ranked 325,944^th in the world and 21^st in Northern Utopia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -14.59 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.