The Incorporated States of NSC89 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, free-roaming dinosaurs, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 5.921 billion NSC89ians 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, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 75.8%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC89ian economy, worth 900 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 152,055 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success, doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, and cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC89's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC89 is ranked 24,853^rd in the world and 1,847^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.07 law-abiding acts per hour.