The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 06 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.155 billion Second Best Puppet 06ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 06ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,709 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 209,601 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

New regulations have put a halt to monkey business, school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel, almost all of the nation's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, and on-duty Air Second Best Puppet 06 flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 06's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 06 is ranked 38,568^th in the world and 397^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 5,137.66 on the Hickory Productivity Index.