The Republic of 38 Card Manufacturing Factory is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate population of 3.674 billion 38 Card Manufacturing Factoryians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient 38 Card Manufacturing Factoryian economy, worth 139 trillion lire a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,920 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute, the police double as repo men, and Leader's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 38 Card Manufacturing Factory's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

38 Card Manufacturing Factory is ranked 184,665^th in the world and 86^th in One for Most Developed, scoring 53.78 on the Human Development Index.