The Republic of Anchors Islands is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, democratic population of 161 million Anchors Islandsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.9%.

The thriving Anchors Islandsian economy, worth 12.5 trillion Anchors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,347 Anchors, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 226,582 per year while the poor average 20,828, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown, and people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anchors Islands's national animal is the Starfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Anchors Islands is ranked 114,185^th in the world and 2,467^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.33 law-abiding acts per hour.