The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 31 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.162 billion NSC Puppet 31ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.5%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 31ian economy, worth 998 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 162,028 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 547,458 per year while the poor average 35,468, a ratio of 15.4 to 1.

Children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants, and it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 31's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 31 is ranked 236,135^th in the world and 1,926^th in Two for Safest, scoring 20.29 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.