Population | 6.325 billion |
Currency | card |
Animal | legendary |
The Very Slow APNG of Second Best Misc Storage 8 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its enforced nudity, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 6.325 billion Second Best Misc Storage 8ians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.
The tiny, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.
The all-consuming Second Best Misc Storage 8ian economy, worth 659 trillion cards a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 104,269 cards, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 582,274 per year while the poor average 9,303, a ratio of 62.6 to 1.
The government has undertaken a massive health education program to combat VODAIS, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, anti-government web sites are springing up, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Second Best Misc Storage 8's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Second Best Misc Storage 8 is ranked 44,136th in the world and 2,409th in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
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- : Second Best Misc Storage 8's influence in Balder rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8 was refounded in Balder.
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8 ceased to exist in Lazarus.
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive.
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Avoided.
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Avoided.
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Second Best Misc Storage 8's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".