The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 162 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.947 billion Second Best Puppet 162ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 162ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,311 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 165,065 cards, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

Foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas, children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. 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 162's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 162 is ranked 313,370^th in the world and 2,388^th in Two for Most Secular, with 0.99 Atheism Rate.