The Principality of Purple Rain 8 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Prince with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.777 billion Purple Rain 8ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Paul. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Purple Rain 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,523 trillion guilders 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, Information Technology, 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 263,664 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 760,309 per year while the poor average 72,584, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, and the police double as repo men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple Rain 8's national animal is the parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Love Symbol.

Purple Rain 8 is ranked 26,718^th in the world and 399^th in NationStates for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.77 law-abiding acts per hour.