The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 106 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, compulsory vegetarianism, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.592 billion Second Best Puppet 106ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 106ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,105 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 167,762 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Second Best Puppet 106, the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest legendary hunting institutions, new government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, and few that venture into government archives are ever seen again. 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 106's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 106 is ranked 24,889^th in the world and 1,852^nd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.03 law-abiding acts per hour.