The Warming-Up Incinerator of Card Cleaver is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 756 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 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Cleavage economy, worth 67.7 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 89,488 card scaps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art, Leader has just been declared ruler of Card Cleaver in an international press conference, and tourists avoid using the nation's bugged phones and monitored internet. 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 147,796^th in the world and 20^th in Trading Cards for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 476.03 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.