The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 182 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, triple-decker prams, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.672 billion NSC Puppet 182ians 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 Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 182ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,378 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 179,737 cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations, few that venture into government archives are ever seen again, rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million cards of property damage, and doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 182's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 182 is ranked 11,273^rd in the world and 732^nd in Two for Most Cultured, scoring 113 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.