The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 62 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, parental licensing program, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.798 billion Second Best Puppet 62ians 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. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 62ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,248 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 183,669 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Second Best Puppet 62 has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies, water fights now end with thousands dead, schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, and citizens have never heard foreign radio. 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 62's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 62 is ranked 188,629^th in the world and 521^st in Two for Highest Food Quality, scoring 12.69 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.