The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 8 is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.676 billion Second Best Pack Storage 8ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,482 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 193,125 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

The public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, and soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued. 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 8's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

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