The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 204 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its closed borders, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.71 billion NSC Puppet 204ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 204ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,358 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 176,167 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room, nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive, and denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 204's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 204 is ranked 12,577^th in the world and 1,257^th in Two for Largest Governments, scoring 34.32 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.