The Holy Empire of Kardinal Kort is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 13.049 billion Kardinal Kortians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 30.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Kardinal Kortian economy, worth 474 trillion Faiths a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,387 Faiths, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military funding has been stripped back, genetic researchers have been expelled, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and most pop videos prominently feature the Kardinal Kortian flag. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kardinal Kort's national animal is the Pope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kardinal Kort is ranked 67,996^th in the world and 152^nd in A Taco Paradise for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,505.52 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.