The Republic of Ansario is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by John Taddlesworth with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 12.617 billion Ansarions enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ansario City. The average income tax rate is 17.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ansarion economy, worth a remarkable 1,601 trillion Marns a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,960 Marns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, foreign football clubs wave the Ansarion flag before every game, the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ansario's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ansario is ranked 239,977^th in the world and 16^th in Imperial Sanctuary for Lowest Crime Rates, with 54.56 law-abiding acts per hour.