The Domain of Silverblade is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Brilliant Lord with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, keen interest in outer space, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.327 billion Silverbladeans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lighttown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Silverbladean economy, worth a remarkable 1,547 trillion silvabucks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 290,551 silvabucks, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.

Internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing The Brilliant Lord to cartoon bears, AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", and TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silverblade's national animal is the Lightfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is The Gleaming Brilliance.

Silverblade is ranked 283,036^th in the world and 10,503^rd in Osiris for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 23.15 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.