The Oppressed Peoples of Card Thrall is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The humorless, devout population of 3.808 billion Card Thrallians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Thrallian economy, worth 390 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,345 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 308,419 per year while the poor average 26,477, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances, tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless, and prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Thrall's national animal is the sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Card Thrall is ranked 66,982^nd in the world and 505^th in Holmond Holdings for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,119.23 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.