The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 123 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.669 billion Second Best Puppet 123ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 123ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,262 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 189,275 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 571,241 per year while the poor average 48,862, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

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Second Best Puppet 123 is ranked 64,856^th in the world and 292^nd in Two for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.