The People's Republic of Cardmania9008 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.681 billion Cardmania9008ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Cardmania9008ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,311 trillion Deneroes a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 261,154 Deneroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, Harry Potter books are banned, and diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania9008's national animal is the ardvarke, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Cardmania9008 is ranked 321,016th in the world and 308th in Home Sweet 9003 for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -8.97 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Cardmania9008, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, Harry Potter books are banned.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates.
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Cardmania9008, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths.
- : Following new legislation in
Cardmania9008, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election.
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Cardmania9008 was reclassified from "Democratic Socialists" to "Corrupt Dictatorship".