The UPC of Centrist Card Farm 048 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.184 billion Centrist Card Farm 048ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 85.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Centrist Card Farm 048ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. 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 181,750 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high, and the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centrist Card Farm 048's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Centrist Card Farm 048 is ranked 19,873^rd in the world and 73^rd in Memeland United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.82 law-abiding acts per hour.