The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 184 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.641 billion Second Best Puppet 184ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 184ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,053 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 158,614 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Kids are gathering at the local soda shop to celebrate staying out past sundown, large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, and a few people seem to spend their whole time complaining. 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 184's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 184 is ranked 11,094^th in the world and 242^nd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.15 law-abiding acts per hour.