The Watching anime eps of Lurklife 8 is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Luhapi Luendoro with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.573 billion Lurklife 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 enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dekaisu. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Lurklife 8ian economy, worth 317 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,969 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government has stated an intention to min-max its stats for 'teh pwnage', baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, and fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lurklife 8's national animal is the bison, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is RoRoRo.

Lurklife 8 is ranked 241,111^th in the world and 7,608^th in Suspicious for Nicest Citizens, with 2.14 average smiles per day.