The Armed Republic of CR48 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, parental licensing program, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.776 billion CR48ians 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, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.3%.

The frighteningly efficient CR48ian economy, worth 906 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 156,961 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.3 times as much as the poorest.

Bruised children are made to thank their bullies for the valuable life lessons, directors of low-budget sci-fi films are flocking to use CR48 City as a backdrop, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, and tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CR48's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

CR48 is ranked 233,840^th in the world and 2,011^th in Two for Safest, scoring 18.44 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.