UPDATE: As of August 26th, the server has been rolled back to restore 1.12 items/culled chunks, announcement here
I guess it depends on how you define anarchy, but it's definitely an interesting choice by the admins to soft reset the economy/take away items from players on an anarchy server...
2b2t's announcement is here on their website
You may like this pattern of starting all custom commands with a comma - benefits against a wrapper command would be shorter command names and built-in tab completion.