The Dictatorship of Raining Dawn is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Pain with an iron fist, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.8 billion Dawnians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Middle. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Raining Dawnian economy, worth 420 trillion Tears a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 150,173 Tears, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms, tourists call Raining Dawnian beach towns "the fine coastline", the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", and citizens have an obligation to remain silent and anything they say may be used against them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raining Dawn's national animal is the Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Raining Dawn is ranked 21,395^th in the world and 3^rd in The Nationstates Assembly for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,892.44 on the Gilded Widget Scale.