The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 50 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its closed borders, complete lack of prisons, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.71 billion NSC Puppet 50ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.2%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 50ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,301 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 168,774 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, when you fly on Air NSC Puppet 50 you win a seat or you die, and politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 50's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 50 is ranked 8,043^rd in the world and 152^nd in Two for Most Cultured, scoring 129 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.