The United States of Printer472 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.497 billion Printer472ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Printer472ian economy, worth 896 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 163,054 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists, the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies, and kids are gathering at the local soda shop to celebrate staying out past sundown. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer472's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Printer472 is ranked 276,001^st in the world and 1,650^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 34.19 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.