The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 181 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, pith helmet sales, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.699 billion Second Best Puppet 181ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 181ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,163 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 173,671 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet, major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings, and men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them. 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 181's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 181 is ranked 284,514^th in the world and 1,636^th in Two for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4.28 pounds of wildlife per square mile.