The Principality of Cardmania9006 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.395 billion Cardmania9006ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Cardmania9006ian economy, worth 996 trillion Deneroes a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,790 Deneroes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 506,600 per year while the poor average 25,035, a ratio of 20.2 to 1.
The arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, and the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania9006's national animal is the ardvarke, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Cardmania9006 is ranked 214,709th in the world and 293rd in LunarPunk for Smartest Citizens, with 20.1 quips per hour.
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Cardmania9006 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
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Cardmania9006 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
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Cardmania9006's influence in LunarPunk rose from "Page" to "Squire".
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Cardmania9006, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces".
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Cardmania9006, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps.
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Cardmania9006, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be.
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Cardmania9006, the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place.
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Cardmania9006, if the best leaders are those who don't want to lead then Leader's lack of leadership must be a great leadership quality.
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Cardmania9006, women no longer need to pepper conversations with incessant references to fictitious husbands.
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Cardmania9006, foreign leaders are advising that Leader's letters must have gotten lost in the mail.