The Colony of Burning Cards is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.475 billion Card Burners 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 18.2%.

The strong Firey economy, worth 110 trillion banks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Gambling, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 74,873 banks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Some magnifier-wielding Card Burners say Leader seems a little lacking in something, planes with cockpit glass are reserved for the top pilots, kids leave museums believing that some humans have six fingers, and laborers are building walls and making Wezeltonia pay for it. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Burning Cards's national animal is the dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Burning Cards is ranked 239,253^rd in the world and 1^st in Card Destruction for Least Corrupt Governments, with 91.69 percentage of bribes refused.