The Shadows of Shadow Raker is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Visoraxus with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 17.139 billion citizens 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, socially-minded, 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 Visograd. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Shadow Raker economy, worth 566 trillion dollars 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. 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 33,062 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Soldiers are equipped with multi-million dollar battlesuits, golden statues of robots line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shadow Raker's national animal is the robot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Shadow Raker is ranked 139,604^th in the world and 2^nd in The Shadows for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 496.88 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.