The Republic of Anchors Islands is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Nicolaus Copernicus with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.483 billion Anchors Islandsians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchors City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Anchors Islandsian economy, worth 212 trillion Anchors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 143,435 Anchors, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 663,304 per year while the poor average 18,712, a ratio of 35.4 to 1.

Homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Anchors Islands's national animal is the Starfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Anchors Islands is ranked 15,800^th in the world and 279^th in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 73,869.09 Standard Monetary Units.