The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 201 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.556 billion Second Best Puppet 201ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 201ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,250 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 190,673 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 562,766 per year while the poor average 50,804, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"), healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and in musicals everybody's a little bit racist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 201's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 201 is ranked 19,450^th in the world and 1,320^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.17 law-abiding acts per hour.