The Empire of Ansoku is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lotus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, anti-smoking policies, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.159 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 large, 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 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ansokuan economy, worth a remarkable 1,489 trillion Credits 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 black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 208,114 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, and the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ansoku's national animal is the Kavat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Wizardology.

Ansoku is ranked 4,732^nd in the world and 7^th in Lands End for Largest Governments, scoring 44.05 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.