The Republic of Xink Cards is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.658 billion Xink Cardsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xink City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Xink Cardsian economy, worth 655 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 179,114 Euros, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Xink Cards's radio stations, citizens are now allowed to discuss whether Leader is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation, the police insist that racism does not exist, and commemoration of the Great Xinkland War costs almost as much as the war itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xink Cards's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xink Cards is ranked 4,826^th in the world and 7^th in Xinkland for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 9,870.62 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.