The United Socialist States of Anostas is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Tom Bucky with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, frequent executions, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.278 billion Anostasians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, 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 48.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Anostasian economy, worth 787 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 Information Technology. 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 76,627 Bloods, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in Anostas, a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII', turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', and the media have begun calling the government treasury "Tom Bucky's stash". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 92,932^nd in the world and 2^nd in Oneid for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.78 law-abiding acts per hour.