The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 103 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.941 billion Second Best Puppet 103ians 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, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 103ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,535 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 193,322 cards, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in Second Best Puppet 103, news headlines usually include p-values, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, and government employees cannot vote for the policies they have to implement. 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 103's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 103 is ranked 277,051^st in the world and 1,968^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 14,692.48 Standard Monetary Units.