The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 01 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.11 billion Second Best Puppet 01ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 01ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,503 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 185,340 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 524,652 per year while the poor average 52,354, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death, the national anthem is a rather effective sleeping aid, tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, and anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper. 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 Puppet 01's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 01 is ranked 178,904^th in the world and 1,503^rd in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,011.54 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.