Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Two
Population | 6.484 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 174 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.484 billion Second Best Puppet 174ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 174ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,086 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 167,502 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.
Diplomacy is a foreign concept to Second Best Puppet 174ians, the weather in Second Best Puppet 174 City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them, and doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality. 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 174's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 174 is ranked 102,851st in the world and 1,469th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.02245724768 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Second Best Puppet 174 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Patriotic.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, the weather in Second Best Puppet 174 City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, diplomacy is a foreign concept to Second Best Puppet 174ians.
- : Second Best Puppet 174 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations.
- : Second Best Puppet 174 was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, the Second Best Puppet 174ian Intelligence Agency relies on rumour and guidebooks to know what is happening overseas.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 174, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it.