The Ethereal Empire of The Shadow Fold is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Aleksander Morozova with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 1.995 billion Shadow Foldians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Os Alta. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Shadow Foldian economy, worth 308 trillion Kruges a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 154,528 Kruges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, TSF-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Shadow Fold's national animal is the Nichevo'ya, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Shadow Fold is ranked 3,719^th in the world and 1^st in The Alliance Of for Lowest Crime Rates, with 124.16 law-abiding acts per hour.