The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 192 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, teetotalling pirates, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.968 billion Second Best Puppet 192ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 192ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,439 trillion cards a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 180,653 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, and children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes. 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 192's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 192 is ranked 115,468^th in the world and 1,182^nd in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,789.44 on the Hickory Productivity Index.