The Dark Sky with Distant Sirens of BEWARE is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Hurricane with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.958 billion Hurricaneans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of National Weather Service. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hurricanean economy, worth 226 trillion notifications a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 76,459 notifications, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, children play a simplified version of hopscotch, and any girl that shows an interest in Lego is pressured to study engineering. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BEWARE's national animal is the siren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nature.

BEWARE is ranked 320,797^th in the world and 129^th in Vristic for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -212.3 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.