The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 181 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, frequent executions, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.759 billion Second Best Puppet 181ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 181ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,183 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 175,048 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, modern warfare's call of duty isn't popular with gamers these days, and abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances. 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 181's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 181 is ranked 277,320^th in the world and 1,910^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 32.85 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.