The Incorporated States of NSC153 is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.517 billion NSC153ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC153ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,208 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 160,719 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns, voting is compulsory, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC153's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC153 is ranked 10,254^th in the world and 606^th in Two for Largest Governments, scoring 35.81 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.