The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 150 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.609 billion Second Best Puppet 150ians 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 Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 89.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 150ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 175,370 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow, genetic researchers have been expelled, and grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving. 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 150's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 150 is ranked 20,561^st in the world and 1,459^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.27 law-abiding acts per hour.