The Croupier of The Sands Casino is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Lady Fortune with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.785 billion gamblers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the poker table. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.0%.

The frighteningly efficient gambling economy, worth 306 trillion chips a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 110,146 chips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 539,840 per year while the poor average 12,877, a ratio of 41.9 to 1.

A chain of pubs that cater solely to children has recently been unveiled, kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes, concussed gamblerball players cannot remember their lineup position, and dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive. Crime is moderate. The Sands Casino's national animal is the gambler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is getting rich quick.

The Sands Casino is ranked 20,021^st in the world and 2^nd in The Sands for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 97.45 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.