The Republic of Card Puppet 8 is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.412 billion Card Puppet 8ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Card Puppet 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,895 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 278,133 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 924,195 per year while the poor average 62,422, a ratio of 14.8 to 1.

The government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, there's a hole in the heart of every Card Puppet 8ian city, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 330,775^th in the world and 54^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Nicest Citizens, with 0.12 average smiles per day.