The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 184 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, aversion to nipples, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.992 billion Second Best Puppet 184ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 184ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,436 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 179,714 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, and mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas. 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 184's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 184 is ranked 216,521^st in the world and 2,123^rd in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 134.05 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.