The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 131 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its closed borders, fear of technology, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.228 billion Second Best Puppet 131ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 131ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,773 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 215,597 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Petitioners are increasingly resorting to climbing through Noah's window to draw attention to their issues, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper. 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 131's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 131 is ranked 298,091^st in the world and 2,444^th in Two for Most Pacifist, with 6.91 cheeks turned per day.