The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 213 is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.573 billion Second Best Puppet 213ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 91.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 213ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,157 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 176,096 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long, police reduce their paperwork by refusing to arrest anyone, and Jennifer Government is a bestseller. 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 213's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Second Best Puppet 213 is ranked 253,718^th in the world and 2,267^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,320.37 Standard Monetary Units.