The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 104 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.581 billion Second Best Puppet 104ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 104ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,026 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 156,018 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

The smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation, legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins, and an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse. 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 104's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 104 is ranked 18,651^st in the world and 1,211^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.84 law-abiding acts per hour.