The Confederacy of Ansaldo is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 910 million Ansaldoans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 39.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Ansaldoan economy, worth 14.3 trillion Founded 1853s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 15,684 Founded 1853s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government popup ads are springing up like weeds, patriots insist that size does matter, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, and the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ansaldo's national animal is the Leonardo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ansaldo is ranked 308,423^rd in the world and 22^nd in Rome Production Line for Highest Average Incomes, with 15,684.98 Standard Monetary Units.