The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 20 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.42 billion Second Best Puppet 20ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 20ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,622 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,701 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

After every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable, and unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves. 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 20's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 20 is ranked 7,806^th in the world and 27^th in Two for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,226.97 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.