The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 200 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.951 billion Second Best Puppet 200ians 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, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 200ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,617 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 203,407 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 738,224 per year while the poor average 39,916, a ratio of 18.5 to 1.

A degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics, army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku, citizens who don't follow a major religion are closely monitored for signs of self-harm, and the industries of Second Best Puppet 200 are coughing all the way to the bank. 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 200's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 200 is ranked 73,085^th in the world and 721^st in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,985.93 on the Hickory Productivity Index.