The Republic of 56 Card Manufacturing Factory is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 3.06 billion 56 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 37.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The 56 Card Manufacturing Factoryian economy, worth 135 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,171 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, governments opposing 56 Card Manufacturing Factory are beset by rebels, and citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 56 Card Manufacturing Factory's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

56 Card Manufacturing Factory is ranked 175,496^th in the world and 94^th in One for Largest Populations, with 3.06 billion capita.