The Borderlands of Cardmania90045 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, rampant corporate plagiarism, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.038 billion Cardmania90045ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania90045ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,117 trillion Yen a year, is quite specialized 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 impressive 191,864 Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, and burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania90045's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cardmania90045 is ranked 9,204^th in the world and 106^th in Lily for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,968.82 on the Gilded Widget Scale.