The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 183 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, free-roaming dinosaurs, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.727 billion Second Best Puppet 183ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 87.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 183ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,291 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 192,031 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

New laws are ignored if they don't have a tabloid-style headline, government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised", being Noah has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, and the Second Best Puppet 183 City XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle. 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 183's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 183 is ranked 7,574^th in the world and 43^rd in Two for Most Corrupt Governments, with 180.37 kickbacks per hour.