The Free Land of Darkelez is a large, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 56 million Darkelezians 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.9%.

The very strong Darkelezian economy, worth 3.86 trillion Drocoils a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 68,973 Drocoils, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 203,050 per year while the poor average 18,444, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Getting an autograph has become harder than ever, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Darkelez's national animal is the Grey Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Darkelez is ranked 226,391^st in the world and 246^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -5.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.