The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 22 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.318 billion Second Best Puppet 22ians 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, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 22ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,386 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 166,651 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children usually cry on their first day of school, twice-daily toilet inspection rotas for government buildings are archived for public appraisal, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events. 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 22's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 22 is ranked 25,560^th in the world and 2,060^th in Two for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 7,089.19 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.