I think you are correct on many levels. It would explain for the facade and the way things always felt so 'unnatural' when we got (scripted) glimpses of the life in Nork.
Some anon posted that Nork was a Clown run testbed/blueprint with Kim as a puppet. So when they were gonna roll out NWO after the great culling, they had most of the kinks worked out. I can see it being some kind of NWO 0.9 Betatest. A almost fully controlled general population, and that public punishment with convicted people strapped to AAG and then the remains run over by tanks sounds exactly what the Clowns/Cabal would do since they feed of fear and trauma.