The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 52 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.398 billion Second Best Puppet 52ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 86.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 52ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,892 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 225,336 cards, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

Government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition, flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers, the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled Second Best Puppet 52 with a very polite populace, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. 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 52's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 52 is ranked 71,665^th in the world and 133^rd in Two for Largest Populations, with 8.40 billion capita.