The Incorporated States of Second Best Olympian 7 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.604 billion Second Best Olympian 7ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Olympian 7ian economy, worth 902 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 136,716 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 410,764 per year while the poor average 35,520, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag, cooking with water and baking soda is considered patent infringement, and overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Olympian 7's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Olympian 7 is ranked 81,443^rd in the world and 398^th in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.60 billion capita.