The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 36 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.085 billion Second Best Puppet 36ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 36ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,569 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 194,084 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 726,729 per year while the poor average 36,263, a ratio of 20.0 to 1.

Second Best Puppet 36 has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country, and clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies. 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 36's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 36 is ranked 228,495^th in the world and 741^st in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,365.88 Standard Monetary Units.