The Empire of Mr Peckles 8Values Test is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.777 billion Mr Peckles 8Values Testians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Mr Peckles 8Values Testian economy, worth 208 trillion Peckles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 16,335 Peckles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation is compulsory, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mr Peckles 8Values Test's national animal is the Amazing Chicken.

Mr Peckles 8Values Test is ranked 304,094^th in the world and 18,564^th in Chicken overlords for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -8.83 on the Hickory Productivity Index.