The Republic of Anshul 2 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.59 billion Anshul 2ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.9%.

The thriving Anshul 2ian economy, worth 120 trillion deniers 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 large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. 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 75,873 deniers, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anshul 2's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Anshul 2 is ranked 233,986^th in the world and 54^th in Srivastava for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -3.02 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.