The Lands of Sweden Kard is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Kardew Robinson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, lack of airports, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.388 billion Sweden Kardians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astley. The average income tax rate is 57.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sweden Kardian economy, worth 248 trillion Ricks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,607 Ricks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

For 25 Ricks tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy, Optional now admits men and women into its clergy, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, and footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweden Kard's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Optional.

Sweden Kard is ranked 261,533^rd in the world and 23^rd in Guinea Kiribati for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 12,642.2 Standard Monetary Units.