The Grand Card Collector of Empire of Caldrasa is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Viivi III with an iron fist, and notable for its aversion to nipples, frequent executions, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.485 billion Caldrasi are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Constantinople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Caldrasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,324 trillion Cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 241,443 Cards, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,661,788 per year while the poor average 12,492, a ratio of 133 to 1.

Prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, Empress Viivi III's recent "I have a dream that we will fight them by raking muck on the beaches" speech seems a little derivative to many, and the country is littered with broken homes. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Empire of Caldrasa's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Nethelism.

Empire of Caldrasa is ranked 146,870^th in the world and 99^th in The Wellspring for Most Developed, scoring 56.29 on the Human Development Index.