The Dark Sky with Distant Sirens of Beware is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Hurricane with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and prohibition of alcohol. The cynical, cheerful population of 2.537 billion Hurricaneans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of National Weather Service. The average income tax rate is 83.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hurricanean economy, worth 142 trillion notifications a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 56,359 notifications, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is illegal, high school bands practice by moonlight, a rogue brutalist can cement their town in the past, and the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beware's national animal is the siren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nature.

Beware is ranked 26,132^nd in the world and 14^th in Horizon for Most Corrupt Governments, with 88.01 kickbacks per hour.