The Commonwealth of Annamara is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Rusty Shackleford with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and lack of airports. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 3.689 billion Annamarans are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lawrence. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Annamaran economy, worth 454 trillion credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,142 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, structures are raised on promises, and foreign workers are flooding in as credits flood out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Annamara's national animal is the rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Science.

Annamara is ranked 307,629^th in the world and 873^rd in Europe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -21.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.