The Colony of Card2026 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.07 billion Card2026ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 37.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Card2026ian economy, worth 318 trillion Idiws a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 103,698 Idiws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, voting is voluntary, and copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card2026's national animal is the NANA, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Card2026 is ranked 252,898^th in the world and 8,994^th in Balder for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 44.79 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.