The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 187 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete lack of prisons, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.22 billion Second Best Puppet 187ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 187ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,556 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 189,344 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors, all the world's a stage for Second Best Puppet 187ian political theatrics, being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, and stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Second Best Puppet 187 to disarm. 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 187's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 187 is ranked 238,263^rd in the world and 1,597^th in Two for Most Pacifist, with 30.98 cheeks turned per day.