The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 204 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.24 billion Second Best Pack Storage 204ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 204ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,221 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 195,704 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-card charge on their phone bill, the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Pack Storage 204ians make research institutes rich, the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists, and the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else. 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 204's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 204 is ranked 8,127^th in the world and 74^th in Two for Most Corrupt Governments, with 173.75 kickbacks per hour.