The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 68 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, parental licensing program, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.059 billion NSC Puppet 68ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 68ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,019 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 168,244 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house, government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition, advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore, and foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 68's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 68 is ranked 11,293^rd in the world and 276^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.88 law-abiding acts per hour.