The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 176 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.701 billion Second Best Puppet 176ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 176ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,224 trillion cards a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 182,754 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

The seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade, nations that kill a Second Best Puppet 176ian can expect a strongly worded letter, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. 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 176's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 176 is ranked 278,040^th in the world and 2,135^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 31.88 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.