The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 153 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.406 billion NSC Puppet 153ians 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 91.5%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 153ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,446 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 195,357 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, pro-life activists often lecture pregnant women undergoing routine prenatal screening, and the nation's ambassadors often conduct their business in jail cells. 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 153's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 153 is ranked 143,502^nd in the world and 838^th in Two for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,920.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.