The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 56 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.059 billion Second Best Puppet 56ians 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, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 56ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,576 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 195,579 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 756,314 per year while the poor average 34,704, a ratio of 21.8 to 1.

People who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, Second Best Puppet 56ian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, and heartbroken parents are urged to "smile for the camera". 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 56's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 56 is ranked 268,051^st in the world and 1,499^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 17,602.12 Standard Monetary Units.