The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 150 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.431 billion NSC Puppet 150ians 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 Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 150ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,396 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 187,983 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Home renovation projects take decades to complete, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and diplomatic cables about Leader have suddenly been very flattering. 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 150's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 150 is ranked 290,714^th in the world and 2,558^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -7.39 on the Hickory Productivity Index.