The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 192 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its closed borders, deadly medical pandemics, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.211 billion NSC Puppet 192ians 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 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 192ian economy, worth 939 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 151,199 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, and when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 192's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 192 is ranked 258,717^th in the world and 2,201^st in Two for Safest, scoring 14.18 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.