The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 194 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, triple-decker prams, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.611 billion Second Best Puppet 194ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 194ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,120 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 169,534 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 502,592 per year while the poor average 44,890, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, a crystal a day keeps the establishment away, and takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears. 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 194's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 194 is ranked 252,099^th in the world and 2,211^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,936.21 Standard Monetary Units.