The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 28 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.167 billion Second Best Puppet 28ians 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. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 28ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,728 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 211,676 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, the nation refuses to discard its increasingly useless penny, a crystal a day keeps the establishment away, and all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material. 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 28's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 28 is ranked 77,882^nd in the world and 1,426^th in Two for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,956.3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.