The Backdoor Republic of A N A L is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 885 million Peoples are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Back Door City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.

The very strong People economy, worth 62.8 trillion Monies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 70,948 Monies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 376,704 per year while the poor average 7,059, a ratio of 53.4 to 1.

Women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested, the government spends millions of Monies every year prosecuting spammers, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. A N A L's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A N A L is ranked 86,960^th in the world and 20^th in Anime Nations Against Liberals for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 12,993.42 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.