The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 167 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.174 billion Second Best Puppet 167ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 89.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 167ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,600 trillion cards a year, is dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 195,806 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands, casino tax breaks are even bigger than their jackpots, television executives are interested in turning Noah's zany home life into a sitcom, and gay couples have to travel to Brancaland to find a church that will actually let them wed. 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 167's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 167 is ranked 19,436^th in the world and 502^nd in Two for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,309.39 on the Societal Mobility Rating.