The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 24 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.089 billion Second Best Puppet 24ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 24ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,612 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 199,378 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 596,351 per year while the poor average 52,131, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Baiting is a national sport, bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic, equality looks curiously unequal, and radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion. 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 24's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 24 is ranked 38,780^th in the world and 398^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 5,129.69 on the Hickory Productivity Index.