The People's Republic of New Anthria is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 90 million New Anthrians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 62.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Anthrian economy, worth 3.38 trillion euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,609 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, all the playground's a stage for New Anthrian schoolchildren, and reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Anthria's national animal is the caribou, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Anthria is ranked 148,172^nd in the world and 134^th in Wintreath for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 75.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.