Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Two
Population | 6.463 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 145 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, unlimited-speed roads, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.463 billion Second Best Puppet 145ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 84.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 145ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,214 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 187,884 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.
Stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Second Best Puppet 145 to disarm, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, and there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship. 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 145's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 145 is ranked 102,884th in the world and 1,497th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.022130859 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Second Best Puppet 145 to disarm.
- : Second Best Puppet 145 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens and the Top 10% for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, all recreational drugs are legal.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 145, many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed.