The Queendom of Shadow Queendom is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.842 billion Shadow Queendomians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The thriving Shadow Queendomian economy, worth 141 trillion coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 76,815 coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 323,966 per year while the poor average 11,799, a ratio of 27.5 to 1.

There's a bustling black market for vegetables, hunters often become the hunted, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, and auctioneers practice saying "lightly used tank" with a straight face. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Shadow Queendom's national animal is the ghost, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shadow Queendom is ranked 114,121^st in the world and 160^th in Fifth Empire for Most Developed, scoring 59.12 on the Human Development Index.