by Max Barry

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Category: Moralistic Democracy
Civil Rights:
Few
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Good

Regional Influence: Shoeshiner

Location: Two

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Second Best Pack Storage 77

Population6.212 billion

Currencycard
Animallegendary

The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 77 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.212 billion Second Best Pack Storage 77ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 77ian economy, worth 985 trillion cards a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 158,578 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Artists are pillars of society, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, and human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 77's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Pack Storage 77 is ranked 103,407th in the world and 2,009th in Two for Most Stationary, with 413.97246422412 days.

Top
1%
Most Devout: 2,413thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 2,856thTop
5%
Most Subsidized Industry: 3,910thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 5,186thLargest Insurance Industry: 6,138thLargest Mining Sector: 7,022ndRudest Citizens: 7,576thMost Efficient Economies: 7,705thNudest: 8,155thLargest Retail Industry: 8,342ndLargest Black Market: 9,895thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 10,499thMost Corrupt Governments: 10,848thHighest Average Tax Rates: 13,685thTop
10%
Largest Governments: 15,502ndLargest Agricultural Sector: 15,875thHighest Poor Incomes: 15,891stLowest Crime Rates: 17,016thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 17,492ndLargest Welfare Programs: 18,579thHighest Average Incomes: 19,252ndMost Advanced Public Education: 19,905thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 24,896thMost Developed: 25,318thLargest Information Technology Sector: 25,625th
Top
5%
Most Devout: 63rd in the regionMost Avoided: 102nd in the regionTop
10%
Most Advanced Law Enforcement: 162nd in the regionMost Politically Free: 167th in the regionMost Rebellious Youth: 169th in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 179th in the regionRudest Citizens: 242nd in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, artists are pillars of society.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, Second Best Pack Storage 77's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, bilingual Second Best Pack Storage 77ians are viewed with suspicion.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, even secular Second Best Pack Storage 77ians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!".
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition.
  • : Following new legislation in Second Best Pack Storage 77, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award.

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