The Borderlands of Cardmania90073 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.052 billion Cardmania90073ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 57.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cardmania90073ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,048 trillion Bodies a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 185,339 Bodies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill, territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy, adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, and you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania90073's national animal is the Human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cardmania90073 is ranked 5,458^th in the world and 30^th in Lily for Most Corrupt Governments, with 215.35 kickbacks per hour.