The Incorporated States of NSC49 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, otherworldly petting zoo, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.94 billion NSC49ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.4%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC49ian economy, worth 899 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 151,474 cards, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.

The smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation, diplomacy is a foreign concept to NSC49ians, politicians literally speak literally, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC49's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC49 is ranked 264,248^th in the world and 2,281^st in Two for Most Primitive, scoring -209.2 on the Scary Big Number Scale.