The United Socialist States of Anostas is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Tom Bucky with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, digital currency, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.728 billion Anostasians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mexico city. The average income tax rate is 45.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Anostasian economy, worth 248 trillion Bloods 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 66,572 Bloods, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, and government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anostas's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Anostas is ranked 55,341^st in the world and 143^rd in Oneid for Most Extreme, scoring 26.12 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.