The Principality of Common card is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Common Guardian with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 2.482 billion Common cardians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of so common complications. The average income tax rate is 63.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Common cardian economy, worth 199 trillion cents a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,535 cents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

An exhibition on common memes is currently starring at the National Art Gallery, creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", and the government seizes all major gold finds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Common card's national animal is the common, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norms.

Common card is ranked 260,749^th in the world and 27^th in New Deathland Storage for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.