The Borderlands of Card Demon 163 is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, ritual sacrifices, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.98 billion Card Demon 163ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 44.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Demon 163ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,251 trillion Souls 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, 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 156,815 Souls, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', misbehaving Goats deemed dangerous to the public are shot and hanged by the town hall as a warning to others, and the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Demon 163's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Card Demon 163 is ranked 14,670^th in the world and 41^st in The Underworld of Hell for Largest Black Market, with 293 trillion Standard Monetary Units.