The Republic of NAS51 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.971 billion NAS51ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.6%.

The strong NAS51ian economy, worth 235 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,267 Marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 222,594 per year while the poor average 11,020, a ratio of 20.2 to 1.

The state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Eagle, overly distant dads are conscripted into national nappy service, and war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NAS51's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

NAS51 is ranked 102,384^th in the world and 40^th in The Ninth Army for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.