The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 205 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.722 billion Second Best Puppet 205ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 205ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,138 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 169,387 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Sweet-toothed Second Best Puppet 205ians have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, and concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule. 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 205's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 205 is ranked 285,301^st in the world and 2,584^th in Two for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.85 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.