Population | 7.908 billion |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 167 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.908 billion Second Best Pack Storage 167ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 167ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,690 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 213,742 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.
Colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Legendary', organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, cheap goods stamped "Made In Dàguó" are increasingly rare, and nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive. 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 167's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Pack Storage 167 is ranked 8,667th in the world and 245th in Two for Most Cultured, scoring 125 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, cheap goods stamped "Made In Dàguó" are increasingly rare.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Legendary'.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, blind dates tend to result in bruised shins.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 167, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation.