The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 152 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, parental licensing program, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.178 billion Second Best Puppet 152ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 152ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,437 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 175,810 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

A ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt, and children have only the most basic of education. 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 152's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 152 is ranked 13,321^st in the world and 1,613^th in Two for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,670.52 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.