The Republic of Combine Overwatch Suppressor 8 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 2.134 billion Combine Overwatch Suppressor 8ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 61.5%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Combine Overwatch Suppressor 8ian economy, worth 54.8 trillion Ration Credits 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. 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 25,689 Ration Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Adulthood begins with the creation of an email account, the nation's skies are now a wasteland, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Combine Overwatch Suppressor 8's national animal is the Antlion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Combine Overwatch Suppressor 8 is ranked 74,406^th in the world and 1,001^st in eta for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 45.83 on the Kitten Softness Rating.