The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 23 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.066 billion NSC Puppet 23ians 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, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 23ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,129 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 186,254 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

An underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy, and a flying elephant and Leader share the same nickname. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NSC Puppet 23's national animal is the legendary, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NSC Puppet 23 is ranked 20,207^th in the world and 1,415^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.54 law-abiding acts per hour.