The Incorporated States of NSC184 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 5.997 billion NSC184ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 81.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC184ian economy, worth 919 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 153,301 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, doctors will keep brain-dead coma patients ventilated for years in order to avoid accusations of allowing people to die, teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs, and unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC184's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC184 is ranked 286,243^rd in the world and 2,107^th in Two for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3.75 pounds of wildlife per square mile.