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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 104 |
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Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: Two |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 104 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.632 billion Second Best Puppet 104ians 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. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 104ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,034 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 156,018 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.
The smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation, legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins, and an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse. 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 104's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 104 is ranked 223,220th in the world and 1,496th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 24,650.87 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Second Best Puppet 104 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes and the Top 10% for Most Scientifically Advanced, Highest Average Incomes, Largest Black Market, and Highest Economic Output.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, diplomacy is a foreign concept to Second Best Puppet 104ians.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, those who turn the other cheek seem to enjoy being slapped just a little too much.
- : Second Best Puppet 104 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 104, the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones.