The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 102 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.76 billion Second Best Puppet 102ians 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 82.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 102ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,124 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 166,333 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 499,747 per year while the poor average 43,215, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, speech bubbles are the soul of wit, 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 102's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 102 is ranked 79,387^th in the world and 241^st in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.76 billion capita.