Population | 6.646 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 57 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.646 billion Second Best Puppet 57ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.3%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 57ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,193 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 179,582 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 599,702 per year while the poor average 40,006, a ratio of 15.0 to 1.
Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings, and the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation. 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 Puppet 57's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Puppet 57 is ranked 102,960th in the world and 1,586th in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.01901974988 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework.
- : Second Best Puppet 57 was reclassified from "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, when people want to start a family the government helps them planet carefully.
- : Second Best Puppet 57 was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, Second Best Puppet 57 City's flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 57, corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt.