The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 220 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, zero percent divorce rate, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.186 billion Second Best Puppet 220ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 220ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,640 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 200,373 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Great Second Best Puppet 220ian Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region, cosy TV sitcom "AI Love Lucy" showcases harmonious human-robot cohabitation, libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands, and garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts. 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 220's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 220 is ranked 11,115^th in the world and 241^st in Two for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,495.66 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.