The Witty Insultocracy of The Red Poppy is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 37.986 billion Shadows are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The frighteningly efficient a Shadow economy, worth a remarkable 3,644 trillion Yen a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 95,952 Yen, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 407,568 per year while the poor average 14,559, a ratio of 28.0 to 1.

University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, genetic researchers have been expelled, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, and the Bird of Paradise is believed to be extinct. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. The Red Poppy's national animal is the Bird of Paradise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

The Red Poppy is ranked 71,629^th in the world and 2^nd in East Asian Dominion for Most Corrupt Governments, with 24.66 kickbacks per hour.