The Incorporated States of Second Best Pack Storage 87 is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.266 billion Second Best Pack Storage 87ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 82.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Pack Storage 87ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,067 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 170,392 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

A milk bath costs more than bathing in money, the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night, Second Best Pack Storage 87ian farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. 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 Pack Storage 87's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Pack Storage 87 is ranked 12,129^th in the world and 355^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.6 law-abiding acts per hour.