The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 107 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.986 billion Second Best Puppet 107ians 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, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 107ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,526 trillion cards a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 191,106 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops, and animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands. 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 107's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 107 is ranked 72,717^th in the world and 717^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,996.9 on the Hickory Productivity Index.