Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Two
Population | 6.515 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 103 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.515 billion Second Best Puppet 103ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 103ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,190 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 182,752 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 613,352 per year while the poor average 40,409, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.
Factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity, it's said that a Second Best Puppet 103ian always pays his debts with significant compounding, Second Best Puppet 103ian diplomacy is by the book, and photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls. 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 103's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 103 is ranked 102,913th in the world and 1,539th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.01958224952 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, Second Best Puppet 103ian diplomacy is by the book.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, it's said that a Second Best Puppet 103ian always pays his debts with significant compounding.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, all the world's a stage for Second Best Puppet 103ian political theatrics.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, politicians literally speak literally.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 103, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts.