The Card Fiend of Tape is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Sora Volla with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.681 billion Tapeians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Healthcare and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aloria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tapeian economy, worth a remarkable 1,240 trillion Cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 185,681 Cards, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,682,663 per year while the poor average 2,409, a ratio of 698 to 1.

Empress Sora Volla's reputation is hard as nails, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, and Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Tape's national animal is the Sticky Snakes, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Tape is ranked 66,035^th in the world and 443^rd in the West Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 25.22 flags saluted per person per day.