The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 25 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.889 billion Second Best Pack Storage 25ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 25ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,386 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 175,700 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Second Best Pack Storage 25 to disarm, voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes, and teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries. 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 25's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 25 is ranked 17,458^th in the world and 1,376^th in Two for Largest Black Market, with 240 trillion Standard Monetary Units.