The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 88 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.968 billion Second Best Puppet 88ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 88ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,651 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 207,204 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Brazen mayors claim official expenses to pay for their drug habits, children as young as eight can be found working in factories, the government keeps its thumb on the scales of justice, and teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake. 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 88's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 88 is ranked 149,268^th in the world and 949^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,765.87 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.