The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 14 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.094 billion Second Best Puppet 14ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 14ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,403 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 173,425 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives, and there's more vermin than ever on the metro. 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 14's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 14 is ranked 251,911^th in the world and 2,509^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.