The Republic of Pablo8 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, enslaved workforce, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.127 billion Pablo8ians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Pablo8ian economy, worth 62.0 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 54,975 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason, nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high, wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code, and when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pablo8's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pablo8 is ranked 97,646^th in the world and 11^th in Pablo for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,319.52 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.