The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 63 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, parental licensing program, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.094 billion Second Best Puppet 63ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 63ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,947 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 240,582 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences, denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom, the disabled are forced to undergo an MRI scan every time they pick up their benefit payments, and owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions. 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 63's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 63 is ranked 173,971^st in the world and 1,412^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,138.54 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.