The Protectorate of Card2031 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.029 billion Card2031ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 60.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Card2031ian economy, worth 357 trillion Fofls a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,882 Fofls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

The only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice, children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card2031's national animal is the Nog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Card2031 is ranked 74,486^th in the world and 3,383^rd in Balder for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,307.28 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.