The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 108 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory vegetarianism, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.991 billion Second Best Puppet 108ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 108ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,627 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 203,694 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 609,263 per year while the poor average 53,260, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, putting a mustache on a banknote is considered defacing a national monument, government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons, and feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 108's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 108 is ranked 312,608^th in the world and 2,127^th in Two for Most Secular, with 1.14 Atheism Rate.