The Incorporated States of NSC144 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.95 billion NSC144ians 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, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.0%.

The frighteningly efficient NSC144ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,078 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 181,240 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 605,240 per year while the poor average 40,375, a ratio of 15.0 to 1.

Political dissidents are cut off from essential services, ratings for sitcom reruns are often much higher than election debates, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, and a milk bath costs more than bathing in money. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC144's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC144 is ranked 266,266^th in the world and 2,350^th in Two for Most Primitive, scoring -217.53 on the Scary Big Number Scale.