The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer209 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.871 billion Printer209ians 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 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer209ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,375 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 200,232 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million cards of property damage, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and children grow up long before the paperwork for their lemonade stands can be sorted out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer209's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Printer209 is ranked 238,912^th in the world and 2,191^st in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -2.37 on the Hickory Productivity Index.