The United States of Printer597 is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its teetotalling pirates, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.692 billion Printer597ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer597ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,021 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 152,613 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Speech bubbles are the soul of wit, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women, and the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer597's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer597 is ranked 181,688^th in the world and 1,810^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,071.06 on the Hickory Productivity Index.