The Potential of A Cardboard Box is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by A boy and his tiger with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 940 million Transmogrifiers live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tree Fort. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Transmogrifying economy, worth 135 trillion imaginations a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 143,861 imaginations, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 896,122 per year while the poor average 9,877, a ratio of 90.7 to 1.

There's more vermin than ever on the metro, the people have taken "Hail A boy and his tiger" as an invitation to lob rocks, billions are being spent on a new island airport, and AI citizens think only in binary. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. A Cardboard Box's national animal is the Stuffed Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A Cardboard Box is ranked 3,875^th in the world and 1^st in Divine Mandate of Sanctum for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 27 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.