The Empire of Card Season 30 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.255 billion Card Season 30ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Card Season 30ian economy, worth 161 trillion packs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,560 packs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community, signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Card Season 30ian justice, coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, and in court almost every witness is a hostile witness. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Season 30's national animal is the card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card Season 30 is ranked 75,696^th in the world and 59^th in TPFKAQ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 102.74 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.