The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 142 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.964 billion Second Best Puppet 142ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 91.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 142ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,705 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 214,120 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

An underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment, and little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 142's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 142 is ranked 9,297^th in the world and 70^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 7,255.24 on the Hickory Productivity Index.