The Incorporated States of NSC Puppet 161 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.075 billion NSC Puppet 161ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NSC Puppet 161ian economy, worth 983 trillion cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 161,854 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition, the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and teenagers sit around on their butts all day. 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 161's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NSC Puppet 161 is ranked 17,738^th in the world and 1,086^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.62 law-abiding acts per hour.