The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 1 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, public floggings, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.479 billion Second Best Pack Storage 1ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 91.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,045 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,297 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

The moral worth of national allies is judged by their GDP, nano-legendaries are the current fad sweeping the nation, the new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. 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 Pack Storage 1's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 1 is ranked 82,715^th in the world and 420^th in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.48 billion capita.