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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 58

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The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 58 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, aversion to nipples, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.849 billion Second Best Puppet 58ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 87.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 58ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,124 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 164,192 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake, there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day, and the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook. 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 58's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 58 is ranked 191,745^th in the world and 656^th in Two for Safest, scoring 49.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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