The Inflation of Deck Value is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Giovanniland with an iron fist, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, lack of airports, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.215 billion Card Farmers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Farmer economy, worth a remarkable 1,574 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, 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 an impressive 128,897 banks, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

Any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced, aid workers deliver life-saving supplies with a devious gleam in their eyes, the only way for immigrants to get into office is as a janitor, and a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deck Value's national animal is the cards, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Card Farming.

Deck Value is ranked 306,902^nd in the world and 2,390^th in the West Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 22.57 on the Bus Surprisal Index.