The Dark Land of Rain and Shadow is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Shadow with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 26.276 billion Rain and Shadowians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rainy Ville. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Rain and Shadowian economy, worth a remarkable 2,043 trillion Rages a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,761 Rages, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables, film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium, sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight, and the government terminates employment with extreme prejudice. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rain and Shadow's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Darkism.

Rain and Shadow is ranked 277,242^nd in the world and 112^th in belgium for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 6,843.05 Standard Monetary Units.