Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Below Average |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Two
Population | 6.612 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 42 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.612 billion Second Best Puppet 42ians 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. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 42ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,148 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 173,731 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.
Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, Second Best Puppet 42ian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries, sweet-toothed Second Best Puppet 42ians have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, and an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety. 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 42's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 42 is ranked 102,977th in the world and 1,603rd in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.0176864174 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, sweet-toothed Second Best Puppet 42ians have been left penniless by the VAT on candy.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, Second Best Puppet 42ian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, posh kids don't look down on the poor any more.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, artists are pillars of society.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies.
- : Second Best Puppet 42 was reclassified from "Father Knows Best State" to "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 42, the military has declared war on all religious influence.