The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 66 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, parental licensing program, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.053 billion NSC Puppet 66ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 66ian economy, worth 949 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 156,810 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

The legislature keeps promising "more study" of corruption allegations against the parliamentary whip system, feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 66's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 66 is ranked 289,955^th in the world and 2,625^th in Two for Nicest Citizens, with 0.21 average smiles per day.