Population | 7.887 billion |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 87 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.887 billion Second Best Pack Storage 87ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 87ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,642 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,210 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.
Athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, farting etiquette is taught in schools, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, and the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work. 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 87's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Pack Storage 87 is ranked 20,906th in the world and 2,105th in Two for Most Cultured, scoring 91 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Second Best Pack Storage 87 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education and the Top 10% for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, farting etiquette is taught in schools.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, athletes are renowned for being the best at maths.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, heartbroken parents are urged to "smile for the camera".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, children keel over while singing "Leader Gives Us the Water of Life".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 87, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens.