Population | 8.059 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 56 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.059 billion Second Best Puppet 56ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 56ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,576 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 195,579 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 756,314 per year while the poor average 34,704, a ratio of 21.8 to 1.
People who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, Second Best Puppet 56ian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, and heartbroken parents are urged to "smile for the camera". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 56's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 56 is ranked 268,051st in the world and 1,499th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 17,602.12 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Second Best Puppet 56 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, heartbroken parents are urged to "smile for the camera".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, Second Best Puppet 56ian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, the nation refuses to provide international aid.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, the government has the power to seize property at will.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 56, teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs.
- : Second Best Puppet 56 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.