The Dainþjóð of Candain is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Commissioners Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 21.957 billion Sprites are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Education, with Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beacon. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Night Sprite economy, worth an astonishing 10,077 trillion Digital Serenity Yen a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 458,966 Digital Serenity Yen, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,298,555 per year while the poor average 4,133, a ratio of 1,039 to 1.

The most commonly-worn shoes are concrete ones, bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", and medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Candain's national animal is the Hatchlings, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Children of Celosia.

Candain is ranked 194^th in the world and 1^st in The Hole To Hide In for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 28,432.42 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.