The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 130 is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.787 billion Second Best Puppet 130ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 130ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,120 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 165,153 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 492,514 per year while the poor average 43,365, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule, the parliament building has installed a revolving door, savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, and mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of legendaries and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry. 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 130's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 130 is ranked 113,170^th in the world and 180^th in Two for Safest, scoring 76.54 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.