The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 179 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.587 billion Second Best Puppet 179ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 90.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 179ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,048 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 159,122 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

There are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools, the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills, people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, and the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping. 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 179's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 179 is ranked 12,796^th in the world and 439^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 96.8 law-abiding acts per hour.