The Council of Anno4 is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by UN with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 20.731 billion Democrats are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hidden. The average income tax rate is 81.5%.

The all-consuming Anno4ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,626 trillion gold bars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,475 gold bars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Gossip magazines have pictures of UN sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, town welcome signs list corporate sponsors, and city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anno4's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Open.

Anno4 is ranked 304,847^th in the world and 2^nd in World Assembly Council for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.33 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.