The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 177 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.085 billion NSC Puppet 177ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 177ian economy, worth 917 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 150,756 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them, government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares, mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library, and torture is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 177's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 177 is ranked 18,310^th in the world and 1,162^nd in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.12 law-abiding acts per hour.