The Epic Collection of Trading Cards is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Trading Card Collector with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working population of 20.645 billion Trading Cardsians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trading Cards Store. The average income tax rate is 16.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Trading Cardsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,804 trillion trading cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 135,859 trading cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Vaccinations are mandatory, the media seems excessively interested in what The Trading Card Collector is wearing this season, volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (Trading Cards has found 1 easter egg), and the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics. Crime is totally unknown. Trading Cards's national animal is the golden eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Trading Cards.

Trading Cards is ranked 33,067^th in the world and 2^nd in Trading Cards for Highest Average Incomes, with 135,859.26 Standard Monetary Units.