The Card collector of Profitropolis is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by No with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, complete lack of prisons, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.481 billion Profitropolisians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Card Palace. The average income tax rate is 42.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Profitropolisian economy, worth 413 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, Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 amazing 279,356 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', young girls often attend the same schools as their children, citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow, and the might of the entire Profitropolisian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Profitropolis's national animal is the Card Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Profitropolis is ranked 3,889^th in the world and 1^st in Trading Cards for Highest Average Incomes, with 279,356.81 Standard Monetary Units.