The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 189 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, otherworldly petting zoo, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.416 billion Second Best Puppet 189ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The Second Best Puppet 189ian economy, worth 89.2 trillion cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 36,928 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 165,066 per year while the poor average 5,123, a ratio of 32.2 to 1.

Exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes, the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children, the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, and the line between man and woman is drawn with surgical precision. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Second Best Puppet 189's national animal is the legendary, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Second Best Puppet 189 is ranked 100,657^th in the world and 140^th in Second Best Card Farm for Best Weather, with 103 Meters Of Sunlight.