The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 62 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.307 billion Second Best Puppet 62ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 62ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,752 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 210,955 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Babysitters are a thing of the past, religious households enthusiastically use whips in private, animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands, and the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs. 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 62's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 62 is ranked 18,133^rd in the world and 416^th in Two for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,387.45 on the Societal Mobility Rating.