The Sultanate of Cardmania900102 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.956 billion Cardmania900102ians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Cardmania900102ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,920 trillion Euros a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 175,268 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.
Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased, and truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania900102's national animal is the Vulture, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.
Cardmania900102 is ranked 173,248th in the world and 106th in Lily for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring zero on the Clooney Contribution Index.
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Cardmania900102 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, disadvantaged youths often commit felonies to enhance their educational prospects.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania900102, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products.
