The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 166 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.135 billion Second Best Puppet 166ians 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 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 166ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,338 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,524 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Lottery winners spend most of their money on security, drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art, advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore, and holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in. 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 166's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 166 is ranked 121,505^th in the world and 2,546^th in Two for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 3,138.31 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.