The Unseelie Queendom of Blackpond is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Quintessa Blackwell with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, feral children, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.27 billion subjects are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Castle Blackwell. The average income tax rate is 32.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vailkrinese economy, worth a remarkable 1,142 trillion gold coins 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Retail. 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 267,484 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster, and a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Blackpond's national animal is the Blackwell viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Cult of the Coiled.

Blackpond is ranked 293,747^th in the world and 8^th in Xalious Mountains for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.13 law-abiding acts per hour.