The Incorporated States of Card grind 58 is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 182 million Card grind 58ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 38.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Card grind 58ian economy, worth 5.55 trillion rupees a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,517 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Children often leave school with more diagnoses than qualifications, the army's trophy cabinets have gone all-organic, farmers trade ploughshares for swords when military sortition puts them in charge of regiments, and public urination is on the increase. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Card grind 58's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card grind 58 is ranked 190,850^th in the world and 194^th in Morpheus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.