The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer38 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.11 billion Printer38ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer38ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,131 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 159,129 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors, advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Leader's most personal functions, the Printer38ian Intelligence Agency relies on rumour and guidebooks to know what is happening overseas, and most academic research has ground to a halt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer38's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer38 is ranked 55,057^th in the world and 1,678^th in Two for Most Patriotic, with 31.3 flags saluted per person per day.