The Empire of Ansoku is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lotus with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.648 billion Ansoks are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tenno City. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ansokuan economy, worth a remarkable 1,269 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 224,819 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, there's never enough space in space, and children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ansoku's national animal is the Kavat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Wizardology.

Ansoku is ranked 13,293^rd in the world and 8^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,648.61 on the Gilded Widget Scale.