The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 57 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, anti-smoking policies, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.047 billion Second Best Puppet 57ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 57ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,602 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 199,098 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room, the Second Best Puppet 57ian Intelligence Agency relies on rumour and guidebooks to know what is happening overseas, foreigners often find themselves on the wrong end of a Second Best Puppet 57ian RPG, and the government is lending a hand to private industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 57's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 57 is ranked 262,375^th in the world and 1,306^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 19,312.57 Standard Monetary Units.