The Republic of Card Puppet 8 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 6.813 billion Card Puppet 8ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Card Puppet 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,677 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 246,176 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The immigration office has an express line for people bringing cash in briefcases, odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Card Puppet 8's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Card Puppet 8 is ranked 20,811^th in the world and 9^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Most Patriotic, with 52.33 flags saluted per person per day.