The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer290 is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, fear of technology, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.601 billion Printer290ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer290ian economy, worth 925 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 165,247 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, the legislature keeps promising "more study" of corruption allegations against the parliamentary whip system, the state auctions off combat drones to fund war reparations, and birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer290's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer290 is ranked 217,231^st in the world and 1,524^th in Two for Safest, scoring 28.45 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.