The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 169 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.949 billion Second Best Puppet 169ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 169ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,469 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 184,813 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures, social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, motorbike jousters live young and die fast, and Bigtopian relations have become a minefield. 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 169's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 169 is ranked 82,189^th in the world and 100^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,609.26 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.