The Incorporated States of NSC57 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.465 billion NSC57ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC57ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,037 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 138,925 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, police frequently raid drugstores in search of contraband bottles of New Spice aftershave, and nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC57's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC57 is ranked 43,210^th in the world and 2,587^th in Two for Largest Governments, scoring 23.77 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.