The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 143 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.744 billion Second Best Puppet 143ians 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, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 90.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 143ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,206 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 178,940 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys, the blood, sweat, and tears of poor Second Best Puppet 143ians make research institutes rich, and companies have begun running campaigns to stop people from remembering their brand name. 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 143's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 143 is ranked 235,054^th in the world and 2,035^th in Two for Safest, scoring 17.96 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.