The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 178 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.195 billion Second Best Puppet 178ians 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. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 178ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,520 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 185,547 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians can be seen taking candy from babies, unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, and the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru. 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 178's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 178 is ranked 269,359^th in the world and 1,888^th in Two for Most Pacifist, with 20.89 cheeks turned per day.