The Dainþjóð of Candain is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Commissioners Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, enslaved workforce, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 26.757 billion Sprites are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Education, with Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beacon. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Night Sprite economy, worth an astonishing 12,332 trillion Digital Serenity Yen a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 460,888 Digital Serenity Yen, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,316,603 per year while the poor average 4,150, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.

The most commonly-worn shoes are concrete ones, bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", and medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Candain's national animal is the Hatchlings, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Children of Celosia.

Candain is ranked 66,290^th in the world and 42^nd in The Hole To Hide In for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.