The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 189 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.569 billion Second Best Puppet 189ians 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, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 89.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 189ian economy, worth 955 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 145,436 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death, CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options, the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism, and the government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters. 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 189's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 189 is ranked 19,623^rd in the world and 1,339^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.02 law-abiding acts per hour.