The Commonwealth of Annamara is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Rusty Shackleford with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 3.818 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, well-organized 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 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Annamaran economy, worth 471 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 123,521 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take, people say chess victor Rusty Shackleford can kill you with mind-bullets, breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need, and international trade is a sticky issue. 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 2,883^rd in the world and 72^nd in Europe for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 100.67 on the Kitten Softness Rating.