The Cyan-Depleted Cartridges of Printer16 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, zero percent divorce rate, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.606 billion Printer16ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 86.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Printer16ian economy, worth 902 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,950 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 475,039 per year while the poor average 42,884, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Printer16's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Printer16 is ranked 200,717^th in the world and 967^th in Two for Safest, scoring 41.05 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.