The Commonwealth of Dark Time is a small, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 23 million Dark Timeans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The very strong Dark Timean economy, worth 1.85 trillion Credit Points a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 80,234 Credit Points, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 306,977 per year while the poor average 14,484, a ratio of 21.2 to 1.

A primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world, the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters, hundreds of teenagers die every year at the Dark Timean Hungry Games, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Dark Time's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dark Time is ranked 167,440^th in the world and 5^th in Boundless Firmament for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,071.62 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.