The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 204 is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.616 billion Second Best Puppet 204ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 204ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,030 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 155,726 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 445,853 per year while the poor average 43,300, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Noah's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars, citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest legendary hunting institutions. 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 204's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 204 is ranked 18,310^th in the world and 27^th in Two for Safest, scoring 114.8 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.