The Community of Secret Dark is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.081 billion Secret Darkians 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Schmaltzberg. The average income tax rate is 20.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Secret Darkian economy, worth 468 trillion golds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 152,093 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.
Returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Secret Dark's national animal is the gold, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Secret Dark is ranked 23,791st in the world and 115th in Gardenia Botanicum for Most Corrupt Governments, with 88.01 kickbacks per hour.
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Secret Dark was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Secret Dark was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Patriotic and Highest Disposable Incomes and the Top 10% for Highest Food Quality, Highest Poor Incomes, and Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Secret Dark was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Healthiest Citizens.
- : Secret Dark was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Cheese Export Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Secret Dark, money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy.
- : Following new legislation in Secret Dark, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons.
- : Following new legislation in Secret Dark, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes.
- : Secret Dark was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, the Top 5% for Highest Disposable Incomes, and the Top 10% for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Secret Dark, returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion.
- : Following new legislation in Secret Dark, auditors are gutting every governmental department.