The country of North Korea compares rather closely to the world in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Both nations of people are completely closed off from the community and the outside world. The citizens only know about what the government officials allow them to know about. In North Korea each person depends upon and worships their leader, Kim Jong Il, almost as though he is their god. They all only depend on what they classify as “we” and they rely only on that because they do not have access to anyone else or even know what it means to be an individual. In both the book and North Korea, the citizens are locked down and watched with a careful eye. Breaking the rules in Anthem would get you sent to the Uncharted Forest, which is undoubtedly similar to what