The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer213 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 5.631 billion Printer213ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer213ian economy, worth 779 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 138,503 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 416,132 per year while the poor average 35,984, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Almost all of the nation's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Printer213, blind dates tend to result in bruised shins, and the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer213's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Printer213 is ranked 7,288^th in the world and 1,267^th in Two for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,754.44 on the Gilded Widget Scale.