The Dictatorship of Cardmania900118 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.018 billion Cardmania900118ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania900118ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,074 trillion Credits a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 188,262 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

When shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, pregnancy tests are under fire from the government for being marketed only to women, standing on a chair to reach a top shelf is seen as evidence of narcissistic personality disorder, and children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania900118's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cardmania900118 is ranked 2,281^st in the world and 9^th in Lily for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 8,005.57 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.