The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 199 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.163 billion NSC Puppet 199ians 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 Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 199ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,183 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 191,991 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and farting etiquette is taught in schools. 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 199's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 199 is ranked 280,497^th in the world and 702^nd in Two for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5.78 pounds of wildlife per square mile.