The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 202 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.168 billion Second Best Puppet 202ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 202ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,370 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 167,754 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Tuxedo rental companies are inexplicably going out of business, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, and new regulations have put a halt to monkey business. 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 202's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 202 is ranked 326,602^nd in the world and 2,188^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 29.43 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.