The Non-Stop Incinerator of Card Cleaver is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, ubiquitous missile silos, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 769 million Card Cleavers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bardcoard. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Cleavage economy, worth 68.6 trillion card scaps a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,163 card scaps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Card Cleavers are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, when their backs are against the walls Card Cleavers look out for gay men, weight loss clubs that guarantee losing a stone a month are talking about misplacing rocks, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Cleaver's national animal is the paper tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Card Cleaver is ranked 14,426^th in the world and 3^rd in Trading Cards for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,264.86 pounds of wildlife per square mile.