The Mafian Economic Republic of The Dark System is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Economist with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ubiquitous missile silos, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.387 billion Mafians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Main Command Centre City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dark System economy, worth an astonishing 44,361 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 1,562,732 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 14,636,582 per year while the poor average 14,068, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.

Games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting, people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, and the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge. Crime is totally unknown. The Dark System's national animal is the Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Dark System is ranked 16^th in the world and 2^nd in The Axis of Evil for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 46,390.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.