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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 208

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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 208 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.553 billion Second Best Puppet 208ians 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 Education. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 208ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,057 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 161,350 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to Second Best Puppet 208" on tails, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas, and rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million cards of property damage. 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 208's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 208 is ranked 13,300^th in the world and 504^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 96.13 law-abiding acts per hour.

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