The Economic Maelstrom of Quord is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Richest Person with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.978 billion Quordians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, although Education and Defense are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rich People City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Quordian economy, worth 645 trillion sweet sweet monies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 162,184 sweet sweet monies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,484,543 per year while the poor average 1,906, a ratio of 778 to 1.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, gun shops sell hook hands and eye patches, and daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Quord's national animal is the credit card, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Capitalism.

Quord is ranked 94,954^th in the world and 5,901^st in Lazarus for Largest Black Market, with 3.28 trillion Standard Monetary Units.