The Republic of Card Puppet 7 is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its aversion to nipples, infamous sell-swords, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.215 billion Card Puppet 7ians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 31.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Puppet 7ian economy, worth 827 trillion marks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 158,709 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished, and hundreds of teenagers die every year at the Card Puppet 7ian Hungry Games. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Card Puppet 7's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Card Puppet 7 is ranked 292,513^th in the world and 5,582^nd in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 5.96 law-abiding acts per hour.