Spotlight on:
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 75 |
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Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Two |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 75 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.75 billion Second Best Puppet 75ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 75ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,275 trillion cards a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 188,997 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.
Children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife, and residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants. 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 75's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 75 is ranked 16,187th in the world and 861st in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.03 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events.
- : Second Best Puppet 75 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, the Second Best Puppet 75 Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'.
- : Second Best Puppet 75 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry and the Top 10% for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 75, an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban.