The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 145 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, complete lack of prisons, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.634 billion Second Best Puppet 145ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 84.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 145ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,248 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 188,218 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, election debates consists mostly of two grey suits arguing over how to best preserve the status quo, new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words, and military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 145's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 145 is ranked 76,486^th in the world and 1,232^nd in Two for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,980.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.