The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 01 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.843 billion Second Best Puppet 01ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 01ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 169,351 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

The carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country, feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room, and the serf suggestion box would work better if more serfs were literate. 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 01's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 01 is ranked 214,440^th in the world and 1,264^th in Two for Safest, scoring 33.83 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.