The Republic of Card Farmer 1165 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.672 billion Card Farmer 1165ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Farmer 1165ian economy, worth 603 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 129,123 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

It is illegal to liberate slaves, the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens, the Card Farmer 1165ian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, and captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Farmer 1165's national animal is the farming, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card Farmer 1165 is ranked 131,983^rd in the world and 2,012^th in Birb for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,410.42 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.