The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 174 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.72 billion Second Best Puppet 174ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 174ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,157 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 172,288 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Noah, legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, and new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk. 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 174's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 174 is ranked 274,500^th in the world and 1,296^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 35.59 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.