The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 82 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.785 billion Second Best Puppet 82ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 82ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,423 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 209,824 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Babysitters are a thing of the past, industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, and maritime signalling has become tedious since only the Second Best Puppet 82ian flag can be displayed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 82's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 82 is ranked 2,284^th in the world and 92^nd in Two for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8,203.43 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.