The Shadowmaster of Malicious Souls is a titanic, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The devout population of 21.719 billion Malicious Soulsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 42.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Malicious Soulsian economy, worth 896 trillion Knife in the Backs 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 41,256 Knife in the Backs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers, and money can't buy love but mercy is entirely negotiable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malicious Souls's national animal is the Ravem, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Malicious Souls is ranked 223,600^th in the world and 27^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,907.38 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.