The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 27 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, ritual sacrifices, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.103 billion Second Best Puppet 27ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 27ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,558 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 192,278 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

New government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, a petition to make petitions important again has been deemed unimportant, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, and ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 27's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 27 is ranked 137,020^th in the world and 733^rd in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,077.37 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.