The Card fiend by the name of New Charles is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Sólbjarþur Arnviðsson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, conspicuous electricity pylons, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.701 billion New Charlesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sjófjallastaður. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient New Charlesian economy, worth 365 trillion Krónas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,382 Krónas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Supervisors in New Charles commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and the government is under the thumb of countless special interests. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Charles's national animal is the Narfálki, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cardism.

New Charles is ranked 184,598^th in the world and 1,273^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Populations, with 2.70 billion capita.