The Borderlands of Card Demon 178 is a mammoth, genial nation, notable for its national health service, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.877 billion Card Demon 178ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Card Demon 178ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,274 trillion Souls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 161,831 Souls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up, and there's nothing more Card Demon 178ian than revanchism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Demon 178's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Card Demon 178 is ranked 21,029^th in the world and 44^th in The Underworld of Hell for Highest Average Incomes, with 161,831 Standard Monetary Units.