The Republic of DoomShadow is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 8.37 billion DoomShadowians 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 39.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped DoomShadowian economy, worth 214 trillion regions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,589 regions, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry and artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DoomShadow's national animal is the black hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

DoomShadow is ranked 164,994^th in the world and 3,591^st in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 437.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.