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Largest Cheese Export Sector: 10,349thMost Patriotic: 10,851stLargest Agricultural Sector: 11,719th
The Season Two Stash of
Authoritarian Democracy
Season Two Cards For Sale
Influence
Powerbroker
Region
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Below Average

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Cardhoard02

Population4.607 billion

CapitalThe Card Vault
LeaderThe Card Hoarder
FaithHoarding Cards

CurrencyTrading Card
AnimalSeason 2 Card

The Season Two Stash of Cardhoard02 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Card Hoarder with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and infamous sell-swords. The humorless, devout population of 4.607 billion Cardhoarders are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Card Vault. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cardhoardian economy, worth 632 trillion Trading Cards 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, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 137,245 Trading Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, and the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardhoard02's national animal is the Season 2 Card, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hoarding Cards.

Cardhoard02 is ranked 330,354th in the world and 7th in The Cardhoard for Most Cultured, scoring 40 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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Largest Cheese Export Sector: 10,349thMost Patriotic: 10,851stLargest Agricultural Sector: 11,719thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 13,324thHealthiest Citizens: 14,544thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 14,602ndLongest Average Lifespans: 14,762ndMost Developed: 15,004thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 16,299thTop
10%
Lowest Crime Rates: 17,597thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 18,162ndHighest Poor Incomes: 18,650thMost Devout: 18,729thMost Scientifically Advanced: 21,933rdLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 25,215thLargest Information Technology Sector: 26,576thMost Valuable International Artwork: 26,587thSmartest Citizens: 28,614thBest Weather: 29,919thLargest Governments: 30,911thHighest Average Incomes: 31,064thMost Efficient Economies: 33,638th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door.
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy.
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size.
  • : Cardhoard02 was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Authoritarian Democracy".
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause.
  • : Cardhoard02 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector and the Top 10% for Most Efficient Economies.
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky.
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Season 2 Card Dung" has been declared a national treasure.
  • : Following new legislation in Cardhoard02, the ban on cars has been repealed.
  • : Cardhoard02 was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".

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