The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 140 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.721 billion Second Best Puppet 140ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 140ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,000 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 148,921 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

New government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, children are raised bilingual from an early age, EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, and the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 140's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 140 is ranked 15,153^rd in the world and 508^th in Two for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,193.29 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.