The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 67 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, deadly medical pandemics, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.118 billion Second Best Puppet 67ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 67ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,806 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 222,561 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 663,716 per year while the poor average 58,439, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

The carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, racehorses move a lot slower these days, and companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes. 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 67's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 67 is ranked 26,574^th in the world and 284^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 5,688.24 on the Hickory Productivity Index.