The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 112 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its closed borders, deadly medical pandemics, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.959 billion Second Best Puppet 112ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 112ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,481 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 186,136 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Emojis are the soul of wit, foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas, declaring that "some kids are just born evil" is not endearing Noah to progressive thinkers, and descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true. 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 112's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 112 is ranked 279,617^th in the world and 2,132^nd in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,774.1 Standard Monetary Units.