The Incorporated States of NSC61 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.08 billion NSC61ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.4%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC61ian economy, worth 698 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,820 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 336,416 per year while the poor average 30,910, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

Referenda are held for every conceivable government action, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive, the state auctions off combat drones to fund war reparations, and companies balk at paying their workers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC61's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC61 is ranked 269,670^th in the world and 704^th in Two for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 38.55 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.