The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 78 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.06 billion Second Best Puppet 78ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 78ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,771 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 219,736 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, the steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them, and young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables. 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 78's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 78 is ranked 310,445^th in the world and 1,384^th in Two for Most Secular, with 1.9 Atheism Rate.