The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 189 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.453 billion Second Best Pack Storage 189ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 189ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,384 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 185,785 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 548,341 per year while the poor average 49,501, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise, vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of legendaries and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, and the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens. 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 189's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 189 is ranked 150,787^th in the world and 193^rd in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 37,528.74 Standard Monetary Units.