The Incorporated States of NSC8 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, triple-decker prams, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.258 billion NSC8ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.1%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,308 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 180,284 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 519,125 per year while the poor average 49,730, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

Inheritance tax has recently been abolished, the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country, nations that kill an NSC8ian can expect a strongly worded letter, and new regulations have put a halt to monkey business. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC8's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC8 is ranked 70,531^st in the world and 695^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 4,059.75 on the Hickory Productivity Index.