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The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 218ian economy, worth 988 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,877 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, subscribing to the Benevolence Society for Impoverished Leaders is an effective way to dodge the draft, those who cut young children are told to cut it out, and citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 218's national animal is the legendary, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Second Best Pack Storage 218 is ranked 275,518^th in the world and 1,452^nd in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 34.88 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.