The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 202 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and deadly medical pandemics. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.653 billion Second Best Puppet 202ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 202ian economy, worth 941 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 141,555 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

People who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, slaves who produce weapons are given free samples, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, and historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre. 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 202's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 202 is ranked 44,176^th in the world and 1,758^th in Two for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,781.77 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.