The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 168 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, unlimited-speed roads, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.148 billion Second Best Puppet 168ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 168ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,585 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 194,597 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Exports of live cows arrive pre-roasted, chocolate in Second Best Puppet 168 has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts. 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 168's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 168 is ranked 3,983^rd in the world and 587^th in Two for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 9,429.95 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.