The Incorporated States of NSC20 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.003 billion NSC20ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.9%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC20ian economy, worth 893 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 148,791 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

The practice of capital punishment proves divisive, millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training, the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills, and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC20's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC20 is ranked 88,637^th in the world and 1,048^th in Two for Largest Populations, with 6.00 billion capita.