The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 162 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, aversion to nipples, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.187 billion Second Best Puppet 162ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 162ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,350 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 164,979 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 502,450 per year while the poor average 42,042, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

The nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens, schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, and new regulations have put a halt to monkey business. 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 162's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 162 is ranked 14,995^th in the world and 236^th in Two for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,615.12 on the Societal Mobility Rating.