Population | 7.992 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 184 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, aversion to nipples, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.992 billion Second Best Puppet 184ians 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. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 184ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,436 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 179,714 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
Descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, and mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 184's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 184 is ranked 216,521st in the world and 2,123rd in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 134.05 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert.
- : Second Best Puppet 184 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, the Top 5% for Rudest Citizens, and the Top 10% for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, chickens roam the streets freely.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural Second Best Puppet 184.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 184, consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola.
- : Second Best Puppet 184 was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
- : Second Best Puppet 184 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Authoritarian.