The Rogue Nation of Cartel Grande is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 101 million cartel members are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The strong Grand Cartel economy, worth 5.88 trillion gold bars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 58,257 gold bars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,854 per year while the poor average 6,569, a ratio of 44.3 to 1.

Government-run brothels can be found on every street corner, Court TV ratings have skyrocketed now that executions are filmed on location, music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, and shaking a stone out of your shoe is considered to be dangerously risqué. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Cartel Grande's national animal is the vulture, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Cartel Grande is ranked 255,261^st in the world and 1,225^th in Europe for Largest Populations, with 101 million capita.