The Dictatorship of The Nightfall District is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.438 billion occupants are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astorolus. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish an ocupant economy, worth 33.2 trillion units 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. 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 23,093 units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job', the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors, and postcards from an ocupant driving test centres are popular souvenirs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Nightfall District's national animal is the Mourner's Lament, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The Nightfall District is ranked 320,907^th in the world and 32^nd in The Great Power for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -108.81 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.