The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 45 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, infamous sell-swords, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.991 billion Second Best Puppet 45ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 45ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,734 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 217,042 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

New urban roads are threatening city parks, doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen, a mayoral candidate backed by Noah recently won re-election with 110% of the vote, and the police insist that racism does not exist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 45's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 45 is ranked 91,449^th in the world and 39^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 45,361.79 Standard Monetary Units.