The Disputed Territories of Cardmania900116 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.96 billion Cardmania900116ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 72.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania900116ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,439 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 222,574 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, the statue in the Rubin Plaza has a solar panel for a hat, Cardmania900116ian tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode, and popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania900116's national animal is the Scorpion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cardmania900116 is ranked 59,708^th in the world and 30^th in Lily for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 517.22 on the Clooney Contribution Index.