The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 22 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.72 billion Second Best Puppet 22ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 22ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,134 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 168,755 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

One of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, government policy is dictated by a major religion, and sleazy politicians exploit the Parliamentary Code of Conduct to purge their rivals. 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 22's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 22 is ranked 9,541^st in the world and 123^rd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 101.95 law-abiding acts per hour.