The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 8 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its daily referendums, parental licensing program, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.059 billion Second Best Pack Storage 8ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,583 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 196,480 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor, Leader's support among single young men has drooped slightly, and parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset. 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 8's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Pack Storage 8 is ranked 17,732^nd in the world and 36^th in Two for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 7,027.9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.