The Community of Card for Bob4 is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ban on automobiles, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.788 billion Card for Bob4ians 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 Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amestris. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Card for Bob4ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,401 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,570 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, and apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card for Bob4's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card for Bob4 is ranked 29,971^st in the world and 1^st in Amestris for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,437.91 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.