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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 139 |
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Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Below Average |
Location: Two |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 139 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, pith helmet sales, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.519 billion Second Best Puppet 139ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 139ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,217 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 186,742 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.
A bureaucratic fight over SBP1IA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations, citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, and books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy. 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 139's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 139 is ranked 102,893rd in the world and 1,506th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.02204752572 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, a bureaucratic fight over SBP1IA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, Retail facilities are being turned into legendary habitats.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse.
- : Second Best Puppet 139 was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Authoritarian Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, only a minority of the population can actually vote at elections.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 139, politicians are often referred to as thesauruses behind their backs.