The Federation of Ansair is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 3.667 billion Ansairians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Centurion. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Ansairian economy, worth 149 trillion tacks a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,553 tacks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, it takes a village to catch a criminal, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, and the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ansair's national animal is the woodpecker, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ansair is ranked 74,101^st in the world and 2^nd in Victoria for Smartest Citizens, with 39.23 quips per hour.