The Republic of Anli is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.881 billion Anlians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Anlian economy, worth 295 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 102,542 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader can cry on demand, frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, and pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anli's national animal is the giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Anli is ranked 263,013^th in the world and 2,181^st in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.