The Community of CartAgRiem 008 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its lack of airports, ban on automobiles, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, devout population of 8.326 billion CartAgRiem 008ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The CartAgRiem 008ian economy, worth 488 trillion Banks 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology. 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 58,691 Banks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A full moon at night lets economists sleep tight, incidents involving lethal string attacks have gone way up, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, and only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CartAgRiem 008's national animal is the Dead Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

CartAgRiem 008 is ranked 69,741^st in the world and 3,871^st in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.1 law-abiding acts per hour.