The Empire of The 8th Choice is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Yudias Velgear with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, triple-decker prams, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.288 billion Choicers are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Administration, with Industry, Defense, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid and Education aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mutsuba Town. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient 8th Choicean economy, worth a remarkable 1,110 trillion baht 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 black market in Gambling, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 impressive 134,041 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A The Choices Tourist Association survey has rated The 8th Choice #1 for number twos, a rogue brutalist can cement their town in the past, freshly-minted cattle-wranglers have to fend off hordes of teething babies, and death is nobody's business. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The 8th Choice's national animal is the Ankuriboh, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The 8th Choice is ranked 315,499^th in the world and 9^th in The Choices for Least Corrupt Governments, with 47.91 percentage of bribes refused.