The Ancient Knowledge of Ancestral Recall is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by MrRecall with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.41 billion Ancestral Recallians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of AncestralRecallCity. The average income tax rate is 68.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ancestral Recallian economy, worth a remarkable 5,862 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 165,574 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ancestral Recall's national animal is the topdeck, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Ancestral Recall is ranked 267,968^th in the world and 161^st in Nederland for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 39.33 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.