The Transit nexus of Station 8 is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Hachiman with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, lack of airports, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.862 billion Ocastrans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ticket Office. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ocastran economy, worth a remarkable 1,242 trillion rails a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,014 rails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

A firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, the doctor has cold hands, books are so highly regarded in Station 8 that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, and bedknobs and broomsticks are often seen flying through the air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Station 8's national animal is the octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Gaia.

Station 8 is ranked 51,457^th in the world and 121^st in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.14 law-abiding acts per hour.