The Free Land of Pod U-8 is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 3.528 billion Pod U-8ians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Pod U-8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,035 trillion The Pods a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 293,475 The Pods, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,630,790 per year while the poor average 4,199, a ratio of 626 to 1.

Teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool, not showing enough enthusiasm for mutual assured destruction is a court-martial offence, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, and the army's shirt ninja are the most feared assassins in the region. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pod U-8's national animal is the The Pods, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pod U-8 is ranked 4,038^th in the world and 90^th in Poetry for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 7,164.95 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.