The Finding of A Card is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.888 billion Cardians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cardian economy, worth a remarkable 1,734 trillion Banks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,910 Banks, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, windows in A Card City don't have much of a view, voting is voluntary, and snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Card's national animal is the common, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

A Card is ranked 38,848^th in the world and 9^th in Geopolity for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 215.95 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.