The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 38 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.487 billion Second Best Pack Storage 38ians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 38ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,065 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 164,210 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

Flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, and new laws are ignored if they don't have a tabloid-style headline. 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 38's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 38 is ranked 274,144^th in the world and 1,221^st in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 35.95 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.