The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 217 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its closed borders, deadly medical pandemics, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.428 billion NSC Puppet 217ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 217ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,435 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 193,236 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Many believe that Leader's head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, and justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag. 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 217's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 217 is ranked 75,613^th in the world and 752^nd in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,905.96 on the Hickory Productivity Index.