The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 176 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, strictly enforced bedtime, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.932 billion Second Best Puppet 176ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 176ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,516 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 191,152 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 556,810 per year while the poor average 51,882, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country, and citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz. 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 176's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 176 is ranked 92,925^th in the world and 940^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,413.73 on the Hickory Productivity Index.