The United Socialist States of Cardmania900130 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, disturbing lack of elderly people, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.921 billion Cardmania900130ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 83.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Cardmania900130ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,796 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 164,489 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Cardmania900130ians, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, and people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania900130's national animal is the Vulture, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Cardmania900130 is ranked 126,926th in the world and 86th in Lily for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,393.14 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.
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Cardmania900130 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education, Highest Foreign Aid Spending, Highest Economic Output, Largest Black Market, and Most Patriotic.
- : Cardmania900130 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Cardmania900130's influence in Lily fell from "Apprentice" to "Squire".
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Cardmania900130ians.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, political candidates are regularly blocked for minor convictions from their teenage years.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900130, communists in Cardmania900130 note that wealth should be equal but that some should have more of that equality than others.
