The Colony of 2257 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.709 billion 2257ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 39.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish 2257ian economy, worth 33.9 trillion baht a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,822 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

College-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper, kiwi populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions, lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, and military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 2257's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

2257 is ranked 302,933^rd in the world and 77^th in Card Slavery for Most Developed, scoring 43.05 on the Human Development Index.