The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 70 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.747 billion Second Best Puppet 70ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 70ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,211 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 179,507 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Universities are populated by the spawn of the upper classes, billion-card sentient AI killbots roll through the streets dispensing hot dogs and T-shirts, large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, and private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button. 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 70's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 70 is ranked 18,526^th in the world and 1,194^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.96 law-abiding acts per hour.