The 🐱🐱🐱 cute empire of Dark nights is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Azul with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 2.522 billion Dark nightsians are prohibited from doing almost everything but make sure no one in government gets away with anything either.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Dark nightsian economy, worth 201 trillion noodleses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,041 noodleses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Azul is called 'Patches' at international summits, rumor has it that Azul has won three lotteries in a row, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and calling dibs is an unalienable right. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark nights's national animal is the Kittens, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Moewilism.

Dark nights is ranked 28,984^th in the world and 53^rd in Karma for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,718.13 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.