The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 172 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.315 billion Second Best Pack Storage 172ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 83.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 172ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,128 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 178,671 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, the SBPS1BI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, and business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Pack Storage 172's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Pack Storage 172 is ranked 20,916^th in the world and 1,503^rd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.98 law-abiding acts per hour.