The Empire of Ancrathia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Ivanhoé dAncrath with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 10.129 billion Ancrathians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phasmalia. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ancrathian economy, worth a remarkable 1,792 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 176,946 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, and starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ancrathia's national animal is the Insecte de bâton, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Culte dIvanhoé.

Ancrathia is ranked 3,157^th in the world and 5^th in Carcassonne for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 10,147.36 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.