The Armed Republic of CR73 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.053 billion CR73ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient CR73ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,047 trillion cards a year, is dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 148,566 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters, torture is illegal, flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CR73's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

CR73 is ranked 136,242^nd in the world and 1,384^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,246.41 on the Hickory Productivity Index.