Population | 6.884 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 70 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.884 billion Second Best Puppet 70ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 70ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,237 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 179,773 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Concussed legendaryball players cannot remember their lineup position, the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Puppet 70ians make research institutes rich, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, and the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 70's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 70 is ranked 258,042nd in the world and 89th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 43.47 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Puppet 70ians make research institutes rich.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, concussed legendaryball players cannot remember their lineup position.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas.
- : Second Best Puppet 70 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, a third of Second Best Puppet 70ians are e-certified CEOs.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 70, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates.