The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 175 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ritual sacrifices, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.903 billion Second Best Puppet 175ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 175ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,429 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 180,829 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers, the nation is in perpetual campaign mode, and the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 175's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 175 is ranked 264,109^th in the world and 901^st in Two for Most Primitive, scoring -142.2 on the Scary Big Number Scale.