The Principality of Anthologie is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Kurou Of The Even Hand with a fair hand, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, public floggings, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.009 billion Anthologieans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great Landfill. The average income tax rate is 43.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Anthologiean economy, worth 94.2 trillion Vacuum Tubes 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, broadly diversified black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. 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 93,373 Vacuum Tubes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Anthologiean lands, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, and families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anthologie's national animal is the Savage Wombat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cult Of The Trash Panda.

Anthologie is ranked 54,621^st in the world and 982^nd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 170.38 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.