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The Borderlands of Cardmania90078

“I'm Not Dead Yet!”

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The Borderlands of Cardmania90078 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.93 billion Cardmania90078ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania90078ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,093 trillion Bodies 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 impressive 191,572 Bodies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 588,799 per year while the poor average 48,184, a ratio of 12.2 to 1.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania90078's national animal is the Human, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cardmania90078 is ranked 13,715^th in the world and 34^th in Lily for Lowest Crime Rates, with 95.62 law-abiding acts per hour.

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