The Incorporated States of Second Best Olympian 8 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.587 billion Second Best Olympian 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Olympian 8ian economy, worth 980 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 148,895 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 518,808 per year while the poor average 31,112, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', those who turn the other cheek seem to enjoy being slapped just a little too much, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Olympian 8's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Olympian 8 is ranked 16,288^th in the world and 1,387^th in Two for Most Corrupt Governments, with 115.81 kickbacks per hour.