The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 36 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.763 billion Second Best Puppet 36ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 36ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,134 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 167,802 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 493,810 per year while the poor average 44,895, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

The nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets, rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down. 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 36's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 36 is ranked 16,773^rd in the world and 953^rd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.49 law-abiding acts per hour.