The State of RHW 8 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its irreverence towards religion and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.938 billion RHW 8ians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The thriving RHW 8ian economy, worth 381 trillion betales a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 22,541 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, RHW 8 has designated Westminster as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of RHW 8 in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is a serious problem. RHW 8's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

RHW 8 is ranked 267,666^th in the world and 122^nd in The Federation of Independent Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 39.42 law-abiding acts per hour.