The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 220 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 6.539 billion Second Best Puppet 220ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 220ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,113 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 170,241 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills, ratings for sitcom reruns are often much higher than election debates, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation. 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 220's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 220 is ranked 18,631^st in the world and 1,208^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.87 law-abiding acts per hour.