The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 166 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, devotion to social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.692 billion Second Best Puppet 166ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 166ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,020 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 152,421 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.3 times as much as the poorest.

Turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, dozens of viewers tune in weekly to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, and drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government. 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 166's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 166 is ranked 276,300^th in the world and 1,676^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 33.85 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.