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The Center of the Card Void of Hotbox is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.355 billion Hotboxians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Void. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.2%.

The very strong Hotboxian economy, worth 80.5 trillion human brains a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,385 human brains, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,271 per year while the poor average 7,312, a ratio of 38.7 to 1.

Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production, and according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Hotbox's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Hotbox is ranked 228,898^th in the world and 35^th in The Card Void for Largest Populations, with 1.35 billion capita.