The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 54 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, enslaved workforce, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.118 billion Second Best Puppet 54ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 54ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,443 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 177,778 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 598,659 per year while the poor average 39,113, a ratio of 15.3 to 1.

History textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events. 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 54's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 54 is ranked 283,036^th in the world and 2,521^st in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -6.8 on the Hickory Productivity Index.