The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 176 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.073 billion NSC Puppet 176ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.6%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 176ian economy, worth 844 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 139,025 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 422,124 per year while the poor average 35,582, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.

Major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment, the NSC Puppet 176ian Tourism Bureau has described the abolition of coastal defences as a "kick to the groyne", school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, and only government officials may operate computers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 176's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 176 is ranked 11,384^th in the world and 282^nd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.73 law-abiding acts per hour.