The Republic of SCUBA Trooper 8 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.409 billion SCUBA Trooper 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 20.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient SCUBA Trooper 8ian economy, worth 68.8 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,847 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Smoking is banned in public areas, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, and children seem to be getting better at lying these days. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SCUBA Trooper 8's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SCUBA Trooper 8 is ranked 138,611^th in the world and 1,770^th in eta for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 39,077.75 Standard Monetary Units.