The Federal Socialist Republic of Astana-Anders is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Lord President Fide Thomas Rush with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.43 billion Astanais are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Omni City. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Astanai economy, worth 442 trillion Liens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,869 Liens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Astana-Anders's radio stations, children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, and bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects. Crime is totally unknown. Astana-Anders's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Astana-Anders is ranked 6,753^rd in the world and 5^th in Northern Utopia for Smartest Citizens, with 111.78 quips per hour.