The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer653 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.745 billion Printer653ians 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 90.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer653ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,141 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 169,184 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, and the most common psychiatric diagnosis is to 'stop whining and grow up'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer653's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer653 is ranked 139,660^th in the world and 1,406^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,157.09 on the Hickory Productivity Index.