The Ethereal Empire of The Shadow Fold is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Aleksander Morozova with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.306 billion Shadow Foldians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Os Alta. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Shadow Foldian economy, worth a remarkable 1,377 trillion Kruges a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 188,490 Kruges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time, Aleksander Morozova claims to be the epitome of family values, self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets, and finders keepers is the law of the land. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Shadow Fold's national animal is the Nichevo'ya, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Shadow Fold is ranked 175,921^st in the world and 115^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 432.6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.