The United Socialist States of Card Season 18 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic population of 3.283 billion Card Season 18ians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 27.9%.

The very strong Card Season 18ian economy, worth 192 trillion junk values a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 58,712 junk values, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Card Season 18's national animal is the packs, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card Season 18 is ranked 58,875^th in the world and 4^th in TPFKAQ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 127.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.