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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 164 |
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Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Below Average |
Location: Two |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 164 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.452 billion Second Best Puppet 164ians 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, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 89.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 164ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,138 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 176,441 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.
Nano-legendaries are the current fad sweeping the nation, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour, and business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters. 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 164's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 164 is ranked 102,869th in the world and 1,482nd in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.02230447 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Second Best Puppet 164 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, nano-legendaries are the current fad sweeping the nation.
- : Second Best Puppet 164 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Fattest Citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, politicians are often seen drinking soft drinks at the end of every public address.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 164, teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house.