The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 41 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.495 billion Second Best Pack Storage 41ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 83.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 41ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,008 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,218 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government subsidises medicines of mass destruction, a milk bath costs more than bathing in money, college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza, and Leader can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. 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 41's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 41 is ranked 274,322^nd in the world and 1,370^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 35.23 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.