The Dictatorship of Cardmania900118 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.868 billion Cardmania900118ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania900118ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,940 trillion Credits a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 178,507 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Government spending has hit an all-time low, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, and Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania900118's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cardmania900118 is ranked 5,355^th in the world and 8^th in Lily for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.65 law-abiding acts per hour.