The Republic of Anchors Islands is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, compulsory military service, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-working, democratic population of 297 million Anchors Islandsians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchors. The average income tax rate is 28.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Anchors Islandsian economy, worth 22.8 trillion Anchors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 76,780 Anchors, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses, a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Anchors mansions, and people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anchors Islands's national animal is the Starfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Anchors Islands is ranked 98,542^nd in the world and 2,443^rd in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.