The Interdimensional Domain of Particle is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by necromancer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.4 billion horde are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 不死. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient evil economy, worth an astonishing 16,401 trillion hugs 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 Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, 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 a breathtaking 891,410 hugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage, diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, and residential tower blocks are surrounded by warrens of concrete tunnels. Crime is totally unknown. Particle's national animal is the darkness, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is magic.

Particle is ranked 215^th in the world and 1^st in Yggdrasil for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 21,721.07 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.