The Republic of 10 Card Manufacturing Factory is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 3.598 billion 10 Card Manufacturing Factoryians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 38.0%.

The large but inefficient 10 Card Manufacturing Factoryian economy, worth 154 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,858 florins, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased, the government forces 10 Card Manufacturing Factoryians to eat their vegetables, and literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 10 Card Manufacturing Factory's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

10 Card Manufacturing Factory is ranked 247,573^rd in the world and 164^th in One for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.86 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.