The Republic of Cardisdia Laos is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its national health service, frequent executions, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 447 million Cardisdia Laosians 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 25.2%.

The Cardisdia Laosian economy, worth 18.2 trillion Laos a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,729 Laos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, political activists are routinely executed, students do more community service than homework, and chemically brainwashed citizens praise Leader's name on an hourly basis. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardisdia Laos's national animal is the Laos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cardisdia Laos is ranked 261,971^st in the world and 55^th in Cardisdia for Most Cultured, scoring 60 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.