The Incorporated States of Second Best Olympian 5 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its closed borders, ritual sacrifices, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.487 billion Second Best Olympian 5ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Olympian 5ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,017 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,855 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised", train stations can be 'armful places, bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters, and the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields. 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 Olympian 5's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Olympian 5 is ranked 18,688^th in the world and 1,215^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.82 law-abiding acts per hour.