The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 122 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.795 billion NSC Puppet 122ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 92.7%.
The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 122ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,518 trillion cards a year, is broadly 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 194,828 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.
Chocolate in NSC Puppet 122 has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise, and children as young as eight can be found working in factories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 122's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
NSC Puppet 122 is ranked 340,824th in the world and 2,535th in Two for Nicest Citizens, with 0.21 average smiles per day.
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NSC Puppet 122 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes and the Top 10% for Most Scientifically Advanced.
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NSC Puppet 122, children as young as eight can be found working in factories.
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NSC Puppet 122, carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise.
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NSC Puppet 122, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income.
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NSC Puppet 122, chocolate in NSC Puppet 122 has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers.
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NSC Puppet 122, all the world's a stage for NSC Puppet 122ian political theatrics.
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NSC Puppet 122, children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary.
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NSC Puppet 122, it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies.
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NSC Puppet 122, public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women.
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NSC Puppet 122, mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation.