The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 154 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, complete lack of prisons, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.5 billion Second Best Pack Storage 154ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 82.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 154ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,077 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 165,765 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, and new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk. 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 154's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 154 is ranked 280,182^nd in the world and 2,446^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 29.73 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.