The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 166 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, aversion to nipples, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.286 billion Second Best Puppet 166ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 166ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,341 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 161,860 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.
Owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions, the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work, electricity company executives pray nightly to Zeus and Thor, and one-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 166's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 166 is ranked 344,482nd in the world and 2,546th in Two for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -13.24 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.
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Second Best Puppet 166, one-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses.
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Second Best Puppet 166 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
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Second Best Puppet 166, electricity company executives pray nightly to Zeus and Thor.
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Second Best Puppet 166, the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work.
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Second Best Puppet 166, owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions.
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Second Best Puppet 166, Second Best Puppet 166 has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies.
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Second Best Puppet 166, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume.
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Second Best Puppet 166 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
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Second Best Puppet 166, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system.
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Second Best Puppet 166, reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic.