(between Balladonia Roadhouse and Norseman). The stretch of road between Caiguna Roadhouse and Balladonia Roadhouse is known as the 90-mile straight. It's the longest stretch of straight road in Australia, 146.6 km. of asphalt without a single curve! Towns east of Caiguna do not follow official Western Australian time.
We cannot order Social Security numbers in any meaningful way. Some people have Social Security numbers that start with a higher number than others but there is no meaningful difference signified by this. So the Social Security number is a nominal level variable. Any time that you arbitrarily assign a person or another entity an identification number, the resulting variable will be nominal because the numbers d4o not signify anything important or meaningful. On the other hand, interval level variables are ordered.
The nominal rate is a target set by the governors of the Federal Reserve, which they enforce by open market operations and adjusting the interest paid on required and excess reserve balances. That nominal rate is almost always what is meant by the media referring to the Federal Reserve changing interest rates..