The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 119 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.954 billion Second Best Puppet 119ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 119ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,463 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 183,976 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Cities are engulfed by smog, wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner, and bins outnumber trees in city parks. 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 119's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 119 is ranked 170,519^th in the world and 1,354^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,215.94 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.