The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 40 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, aversion to nipples, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.334 billion Second Best Puppet 40ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 40ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,547 trillion cards a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 185,675 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

The deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts", all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material, the study of quantum physics has been outlawed for fear of accidentally causing the end of the world, and unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place. 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 40's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 40 is ranked 128,084^th in the world and 2,577^th in Two for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,956 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.