The Croupier of The Sands Casino is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lady Fortune with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.631 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the poker table. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The frighteningly efficient gambling economy, worth 671 trillion chips a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 119,172 chips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 547,320 per year while the poor average 15,744, a ratio of 34.8 to 1.

Games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. 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 13,381^st in the world and 2^nd in The Sands for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 34.76 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.