The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 182 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, aversion to nipples, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.897 billion Second Best Puppet 182ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 182ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,486 trillion cards a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 188,266 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced, what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other, and cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags. 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 182's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 182 is ranked 93,695^th in the world and 951^st in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,391.29 on the Hickory Productivity Index.