The Scientific Powerhouse of Dark Matter is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by General Superintendent with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, vat-grown people, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.594 billion Espers 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Academy City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient scientific economy, worth an astonishing 10,343 trillion Academy City's Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 404,138 Academy City's Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Taxmen are issued platinum-cap designer boots to kick bankrupted Espers when they're down, half of the nation's import/export industry is run from a location known only as 'Dead Man's Cove', citizens are forbidden from leaving the country, and protecting the land is holey work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Matter's national animal is the Dark Matter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Irreligion.

Dark Matter is ranked 307,475^th in the world and 857^th in Europe for Fattest Citizens, with 1.64 Obesity Rate.