The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 149 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.908 billion Second Best Pack Storage 149ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 149ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,468 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 185,657 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 577,696 per year while the poor average 45,875, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

Nano-legendaries are the current fad sweeping the nation, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, and young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables. 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 149's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 149 is ranked 37,452^nd in the world and 706^th in Two for Most Patriotic, with 39.81 flags saluted per person per day.