The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 197 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.59 billion Second Best Puppet 197ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 197ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,145 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 173,810 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

New Second Best Puppet 197ian taxis are fitted with server racks, when you fly on Air Second Best Puppet 197 you win a seat or you die, those who turn the other cheek seem to enjoy being slapped just a little too much, and the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs. 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 197's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 197 is ranked 16,681^st in the world and 939^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.56 law-abiding acts per hour.