The Republic of Anchors Islands is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, democratic population of 226 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 23.8%.

The thriving Anchors Islandsian economy, worth 17.3 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 76,630 Anchors, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 221,929 per year while the poor average 20,968, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, and the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle. 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 164,117^th in the world and 2,988^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 218.26 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.