The Republic of Amethyst 8 is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, ubiquitous missile silos, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The humorless population of 928 million Amethyst 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.1%.

The thriving Amethyst 8ian economy, worth 73.4 trillion Amethysts 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, 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 79,062 Amethysts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 233,008 per year while the poor average 21,109, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Amethyst 8ians, they who do not work shall not eat, and frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amethyst 8's national animal is the Amethyst, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Amethyst 8 is ranked 129,128^th in the world and 89^th in LunarPunk for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 2,908.85 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.