The Republic of SCUBA Trooper 8 is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.296 billion SCUBA Trooper 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 18.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient SCUBA Trooper 8ian economy, worth 65.5 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,507 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications, beggars lack pockets for spare change, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, and holy matrimony has been wedded to an unwieldy bureaucracy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SCUBA Trooper 8's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SCUBA Trooper 8 is ranked 282,272^nd in the world and 4,366^th in eta for Most Cultured, scoring 56 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.