The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 117 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.932 billion Second Best Puppet 117ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 117ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,408 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 177,592 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

This summer's chart-toppers sound almost the same as last year's, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids, and costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff. 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 117's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 117 is ranked 288,797^th in the world and 2,518^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 10,477.98 Standard Monetary Units.