The Lordship of Anticheon is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Chancellor Tharronce I with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.484 billion Anticheans are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neaue Antiochaea. The average income tax rate is 26.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Antichean economy, worth 120 trillion Anticheon Marques a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 81,092 Anticheon Marques, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down, Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant, vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue, and there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anticheon's national animal is the Grey Griffon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The One and Honorable God.

Anticheon is ranked 160,388^th in the world and 133^rd in Aesica for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 326.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.