The Mafian Economic Extremist of The Dark System is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Master Economist with an iron fist, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, vat-grown people, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.206 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Dark System Main Command Centre. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dark System economy, worth an astonishing 33,972 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 1,463,962 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 13,711,316 per year while the poor average 13,181, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.

An increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat, surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, and the government-sponsored autobiography 'A Master Economist For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Master Economist's supporters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Dark System's national animal is the Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Dark System is ranked 290,615^th in the world and 23^rd in The Axis of Evil for Highest Food Quality, scoring 1.21 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.