The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 144 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.427 billion Second Best Pack Storage 144ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 144ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,047 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,947 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter, frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback, and policemen want to put the nation's homosexuals up against a wall. 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 144's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 144 is ranked 83,380^th in the world and 535^th in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.43 billion capita.