The Floof of The X-8 Research Center is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Floof with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.052 billion Americans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salt Lake City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79.5%.

The frighteningly efficient American economy, worth 493 trillion United States Dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 an impressive 161,692 United States Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 507,057 per year while the poor average 39,506, a ratio of 12.8 to 1.

Children on trains ask what the weird-looking billboards with arrows are for, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, most foreigners can't name the leader of The X-8 Research Center, and military promises of adventure don't live up to the brochure for unwilling conscripts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The X-8 Research Center's national animal is the Lobotomite, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Technocrat Worship.

The X-8 Research Center is ranked 180,633^rd in the world and 2,607^th in the South Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 920.98 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.