The Croupier of The Sands Casino is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lady Fortune with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.048 billion gamblers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the poker table. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.4%.

The frighteningly efficient gambling economy, worth a remarkable 1,812 trillion chips a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 150,454 chips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 550,020 per year while the poor average 29,192, a ratio of 18.8 to 1.

The poker table has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, pro-democracy regime change has been avoided, it turns out you can teach cats new tricks, and creative compliance measures ensure that high-ranking officials live in luxury while the country's coffers collect cobwebs. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Sands Casino's national animal is the gambler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is getting rich quick.

The Sands Casino is ranked 289,317^th in the world and 3^rd in The Sands for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 45.7 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.