The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 17 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.83 billion Second Best Puppet 17ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 17ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,356 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 198,632 cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom, nobility is the world's oldest profession, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, and unsolved crimes are often pinned on veterans with PTSD. 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 17's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 17 is ranked 196,008^th in the world and 977^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 30,192.17 Standard Monetary Units.