The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer82 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.629 billion Printer82ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Printer82ian economy, worth 824 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 146,410 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.
Lavish state dinners in Printer82 City are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, the secret ingredient is love (and MSG), government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals, and suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer82's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Printer82 is ranked 275,232nd in the world and 1,554th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 34.54 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, the secret ingredient is love (and MSG).
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, lavish state dinners in Printer82 City are the state's leading budgetary expenditure.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, children keel over while singing "Leader Gives Us the Water of Life".
- : Printer82 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year.
- : Following new legislation in Printer82, to say that military robots are inclined towards violence is offensive.
