The Mafian Economic Republic of The Dark System is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Economist with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.559 billion Mafians 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, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Main Command Centre City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dark System economy, worth an astonishing 44,792 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 1,568,411 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 14,689,750 per year while the poor average 14,119, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.

Contestants on The Dark System's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the The Dark System Blood Tithe, and Dark System soldiers know how to create single mothers in more ways than one. Crime is totally unknown. The Dark System's national animal is the Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Dark System is ranked 230,444^th in the world and 8^th in The Axis of Evil for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 31.44 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.