The Eighth Puppet of Puppet8 is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 14.457 billion puppets are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 43.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Puppet8ian economy, worth 123 trillion 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Tourism. 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 8,539 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, political candidates who don't release their birth certificates are presumed to have been born in Maxtopia, and fine dining is just too fine for most of the populace. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puppet8's national animal is the puppet.

Puppet8 is ranked 233,059^th in the world and 1^st in The stormfront for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2.48 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.