The Card Instruction Manual of Shufflin is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, restrictive gun laws, and exploding hoverboards. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.223 billion Shufflinians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.4%.

The very strong Shufflinian economy, worth 179 trillion lire a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 55,546 lire, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 212,193 per year while the poor average 10,052, a ratio of 21.1 to 1.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion, women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, and it's never "just a game" with Shufflinian sports fans. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Shufflin's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Shufflin is ranked 50,404^th in the world and 25^th in Chaotic Sparkles for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,803.32 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.