The Mafian Economic Republic of The Dark System is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Economist with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.349 billion Mafians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Main Command Centre City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dark System economy, worth an astonishing 44,335 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 1,563,916 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 14,647,668 per year while the poor average 14,078, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.

Nuclear physics is the most popular course at university, arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, it is said that a Dark System woman's work is never done, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime is totally unknown. The Dark System's national animal is the Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Dark System is ranked 331,501^st in the world and 21^st in The Axis of Evil for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -106.07 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.