Population | 7.725 billion |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 31 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, daily referendums, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.725 billion Second Best Pack Storage 31ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 31ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,245 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 161,271 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 497,190 per year while the poor average 40,384, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.
A mountain of discarded sofas and beds is incinerated every day, the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to Second Best Pack Storage 31" on tails, an increasing number of knights in shining armor suffer from PTSD, and screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of Second Best Pack Storage 31. 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 31's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Pack Storage 31 is ranked 295,343rd in the world and 2,617th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 8,063.55 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of Second Best Pack Storage 31.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, an increasing number of knights in shining armor suffer from PTSD.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to Second Best Pack Storage 31" on tails.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, a mountain of discarded sofas and beds is incinerated every day.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens.
- : Second Best Pack Storage 31 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 31, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property.