The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 171 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.944 billion Second Best Puppet 171ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 171ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,737 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 218,714 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters, neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers, and descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true. 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 171's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 171 is ranked 203,559^th in the world and 1,884^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 427.21 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.