The One Shade Insanity of Monochrome Madness is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Sir Singularity with an iron fist, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.53 billion Monochrome Madnessians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spectrum Union. The average income tax rate is 68.6%.

The all-consuming Monochrome Madnessian economy, worth 947 trillion Blackbody Radiations 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Soda Sales. 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 an impressive 145,148 Blackbody Radiations, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, and therapists can always squeeze in another house-call. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Monochrome Madness's national animal is the Unicolor Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The One True Color.

Monochrome Madness is ranked 35,695^th in the world and 2^nd in The Realm Of Rewan for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,071.69 on the Gilded Widget Scale.