The Colony of La card 20 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.649 billion La card 20ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 60.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient La card 20ian economy, worth 145 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,320 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only criminals carry guns, rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row, the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis, and the government is allowing greater autonomy for some regions in the hopes of quelling growing secessionist movements. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. La card 20's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

La card 20 is ranked 36,719^th in the world and 2,153^rd in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,971.82 on the Gilded Widget Scale.