The United States of Printer508 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 5.48 billion Printer508ians 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, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 80.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer508ian economy, worth 775 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 141,541 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing, the new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins, the judicial system legislates morality, and restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Printer508. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer508's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer508 is ranked 96,509^th in the world and 1,722^nd in Two for Largest Populations, with 5.48 billion capita.