The Purple flowers of Purple 8 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Purple with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.907 billion Purple 8ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flowerville. The average income tax rate is 73.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Purple 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,610 trillion Petals 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, 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 amazing 239,360 Petals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies, and the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple 8's national animal is the Honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Purple.

Purple 8 is ranked 147,282^nd in the world and 22^nd in Nerdlandia for Most Primitive, scoring -52.33 on the Scary Big Number Scale.