The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 36 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, unlimited-speed roads, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.383 billion NSC Puppet 36ians 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 Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 36ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,291 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,995 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook, village elders are often called in to interpret voting outcomes in Parliament, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. 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 36's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 36 is ranked 284,887^th in the world and 2,413^th in Two for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 11,899.7 Standard Monetary Units.