The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 07 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.397 billion Second Best Puppet 07ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 07ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,445 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 172,184 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, most academic research has ground to a halt, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, and a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese. 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 07's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 07 is ranked 50,062^nd in the world and 2,235^th in Two for Largest Black Market, with 19.2 trillion Standard Monetary Units.