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The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 143ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,685 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 212,468 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

It is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name, and anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead. 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 143's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Pack Storage 143 is ranked 5,568^th in the world and 21^st in Two for Largest Black Market, with 1,343 trillion Standard Monetary Units.