The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 161 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.962 billion Second Best Puppet 161ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 161ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,493 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 187,623 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 829,426 per year while the poor average 26,551, a ratio of 31.2 to 1.

Dessert dishes make up the Second Best Puppet 161ian breakfast menu, children usually cry on their first day of school, the secret ingredient is love (and MSG), and descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true. 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 161's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 161 is ranked 237,406^th in the world and 2,373^rd in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -2.83 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.