The Republic of Dark Sky Default is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, pith helmet sales, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.013 billion Dark Sky Defaultians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 35.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Dark Sky Defaultian economy, worth 69.5 trillion Defaults a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,522 Defaults, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

There has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, and retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Sky Default's national animal is the Default, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dark Sky Default is ranked 316,381^st in the world and 10^th in Terra for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -74.77 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.