The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 84 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.477 billion NSC Puppet 84ians 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, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 84ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,288 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 172,353 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

New regulations have put a halt to monkey business, depression sinks in after each election when voters realize they are stuck with these people for years, chocolate in NSC Puppet 84 has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers, and anti-tourism militias patrol the borders. 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 84's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 84 is ranked 11,076^th in the world and 100^th in Two for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 6,974.85 on the Hickory Productivity Index.