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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 139

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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 139 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, free-roaming dinosaurs, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.754 billion Second Best Puppet 139ians 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 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 1,270 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 188,107 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Distrust of taps has many people bathing only with bottled mineral water, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, and people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile. 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 261,893^rd in the world and 2,294^th in Two for Safest, scoring 12.24 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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