Population | 6.488 billion |
Leader | Noah |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 202 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.488 billion Second Best Puppet 202ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 202ian economy, worth 916 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 141,205 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.
Drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, the SBP2BI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas, and the Hanging Gardens account for half of Second Best Puppet 202 City's water use. 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 202's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Second Best Puppet 202 is ranked 102,814th in the world and 1,441st in Two for Most Stationary, with 414.02520724592 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, the Hanging Gardens account for half of Second Best Puppet 202 City's water use.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas.
- : Second Best Puppet 202 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments and Most Authoritarian.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, the SBP2BI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, single celebrities have to repeatedly prove their chastity to avoid being married off to infatuated fans.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, speech bubbles are the soul of wit.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, the government seems embarrassed to be seen governing.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, anti-tourism militias patrol the borders.
- : Following new legislation in Second Best Puppet 202, consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola.