The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 26 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, smutty television, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.805 billion Second Best Puppet 26ians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 26ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,259 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 185,112 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 772,390 per year while the poor average 28,958, a ratio of 26.7 to 1.

Residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants, abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, and organ donation rates have hit a new low. 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 26's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 26 is ranked 9,182^nd in the world and 98^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 102.63 law-abiding acts per hour.