The Incorporated States of NSC128 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.509 billion NSC128ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC128ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,124 trillion cards a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,762 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Legendary', veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and kitchen patrol is dominated by ten-year-old runts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC128's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC128 is ranked 13,658^th in the world and 181^st in Two for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,730.97 on the Societal Mobility Rating.