The Empire of Ansoku is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lotus with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.591 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 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ansokuan economy, worth a remarkable 1,258 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 225,045 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, most ambassadors from Ansoku retire only a few years after being appointed, and coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms. 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 289,891^st in the world and 173^rd in Lands End for Most Primitive, scoring -651.72 on the Scary Big Number Scale.