The Audi of R8 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Driver with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.172 billion R8ians 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ingolstadt. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient R8ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,987 trillion Fuels 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 158,401 Fuels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, people say chess victor Driver can kill you with mind-bullets, and pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. R8's national animal is the Cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Speed.

R8 is ranked 56,876^th in the world and 6^th in Greece for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,409.62 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.