Population | 6.569 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 194 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.569 billion Second Best Puppet 194ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.6%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 194ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,113 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 169,534 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 502,592 per year while the poor average 44,890, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.
Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, a crystal a day keeps the establishment away, and takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears. 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 194's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 194 is ranked 11,156th in the world and 252nd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.05 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, a crystal a day keeps the establishment away.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program.
- : Second Best Puppet 194 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, postpartum parents weep when doctors congratulate them on their beautiful baby girls.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, labour strikes are routinely squashed by police.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-card mansions.
- : Second Best Puppet 194 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 194, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat.