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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 175 |
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Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Two |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 175 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.492 billion Second Best Puppet 175ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 175ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,106 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 170,376 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.
Government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living, and environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 175's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 175 is ranked 102,840th in the world and 1,466th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.02488780168 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares.
- : Second Best Puppet 175 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Puppet 175ians make research institutes rich.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, Noah has been known to make speeches in fishing waders.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 175, small shoes often wash up on the beach.