The Artwork Recycling Device of All Cards are Worthless is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.022 billion Shredders are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.4%.

The frighteningly efficient All Cards are Worthlessian economy, worth a remarkable 1,751 trillion Banks a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 218,289 Banks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 869,260 per year while the poor average 36,924, a ratio of 23.5 to 1.

Citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over All Cards are Worthless, Leader's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht, pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts, and prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. All Cards are Worthless's national animal is the Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

All Cards are Worthless is ranked 23,766^th in the world and 43^rd in Big Farma for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.83 law-abiding acts per hour.