The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 46 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.47 billion Second Best Puppet 46ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 46ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,527 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 180,325 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.
Noah's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars, group hugs break out during floor votes, confusing advertising has left citizens unsure if cults will either welcome them or try to kill them, and it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies. 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 Puppet 46's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 46 is ranked 340,188th in the world and 2,272nd in Two for Nicest Citizens, with 0.22 average smiles per day.
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Second Best Puppet 46, it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies.
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Second Best Puppet 46, confusing advertising has left citizens unsure if cults will either welcome them or try to kill them.
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Second Best Puppet 46, group hugs break out during floor votes.
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Second Best Puppet 46, Noah's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars.
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Second Best Puppet 46, nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive.
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Second Best Puppet 46, residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants.
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Second Best Puppet 46, skateparks can be found in every city.
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Second Best Puppet 46, the well-to-do in Two are never on time for important appointments.
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Second Best Puppet 46, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it.
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Second Best Puppet 46, teenagers sit around on their butts all day.