The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 61 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.338 billion Second Best Puppet 61ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 61ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,652 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 198,199 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.

Older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road, it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them, most academic research has ground to a halt, and anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins. 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 61's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 61 is ranked 286,594^th in the world and 2,188^th in Two for Most Pacifist, with 10.78 cheeks turned per day.