The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 73 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.668 billion Second Best Pack Storage 73ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 73ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,399 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 182,522 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

The nation sends criminals home to think about what they did, this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year, many citizens refuse to smile lest they reveal their gold fillings, and the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions. 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 73's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 73 is ranked 125,877^th in the world and 1,289^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,515.71 on the Hickory Productivity Index.