The Floof of The X-8 Research Center is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Floof with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, enslaved workforce, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.012 billion Americans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salt Lake City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.6%.

The frighteningly efficient American economy, worth 475 trillion United States Dollars 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 157,750 United States Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 476,098 per year while the poor average 40,723, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

Couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens, it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable, student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come, and unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The X-8 Research Center's national animal is the Lobotomite, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Technocrat Worship.

The X-8 Research Center is ranked 61,451^st in the world and 782^nd in the South Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,659.64 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.