The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 164 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.682 billion Second Best Pack Storage 164ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 164ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,481 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 192,867 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Research into 'designer babies' is banned, there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship, people talk about things being better when men were men, and space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 164's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Pack Storage 164 is ranked 60,860^th in the world and 610^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 4,361.28 on the Hickory Productivity Index.