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The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 124ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,482 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 190,023 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 124's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

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