The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 18 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its fear of technology, aversion to nipples, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.919 billion Second Best Pack Storage 18ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,505 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 190,151 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

The legislature keeps promising "more study" of corruption allegations against the parliamentary whip system, a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and one of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes. 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 18's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 18 is ranked 9,326^th in the world and 390^th in Two for Largest Governments, scoring 36.59 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.