The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 47 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.858 billion Second Best Puppet 47ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 47ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,242 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 181,206 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 614,327 per year while the poor average 39,466, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

There's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy", families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, and foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas. 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 47's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 47 is ranked 268,379^th in the world and 2,444^th in Two for Most Primitive, scoring -230.29 on the Scary Big Number Scale.