The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 120 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, parental licensing program, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.925 billion Second Best Puppet 120ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 120ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,791 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 226,035 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 836,998 per year while the poor average 42,982, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

People who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, small children are frequently chased by rehabilitated pitbulls, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. 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 120's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 120 is ranked 228,684^th in the world and 741^st in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,350.3 Standard Monetary Units.