The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 195 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.929 billion Second Best Puppet 195ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 195ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,490 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 187,942 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios, and visiting dignitaries often end up cuddling in the hot tub with Noah. 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 195's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 195 is ranked 16,718^th in the world and 17^th in Two for Most Patriotic, with 56.14 flags saluted per person per day.