The Borderlands of Lacard 19 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 2.096 billion Lacard 19ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Lacard 19ian economy, worth 76.1 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 36,314 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lacard 19's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lacard 19 is ranked 119,557^th in the world and 610^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,177.86 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.