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The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 199ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,616 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 209,119 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

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Second Best Pack Storage 199 is ranked 6,689^th in the world and 65^th in Two for Largest Black Market, with 1,071 trillion Standard Monetary Units.