The Protectorate of Paffnicard 4 is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Aleksandar Vekili with an iron fist, and renowned for its enslaved workforce, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.056 billion Paffniacs 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. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skoptopolis. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paffniac economy, worth 997 trillion banks 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. 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 123,817 banks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

All industry is owned and run by the government, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, and women no longer need to pepper conversations with incessant references to fictitious husbands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paffnicard 4's national animal is the card, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is card farming.

Paffnicard 4 is ranked 233,872^nd in the world and 19^th in 10KI Card Farm for Nicest Citizens, with 4 average smiles per day.