The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 46 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.478 billion Second Best Pack Storage 46ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 46ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,151 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 177,705 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

College-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper, motivational posters send motorists positive vibes in high-risk areas, human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's, and forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks. 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 46's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 46 is ranked 82,730^th in the world and 423^rd in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.48 billion capita.