The Federation of Anquientia is a huge, genial nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 691 million Ancients 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asuras. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Anquientian economy, worth 67.8 trillion credits 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 98,102 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fat taxes on red meat has left the beef industry extra lean, home renovation shows are increasingly popular, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities. Crime is totally unknown. Anquientia's national animal is the black cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Anquientia is ranked 14,810^th in the world and 358^th in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 88.57 on the Human Development Index.