The Vampire Syndicate of Black Ivars is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Methuselah Ţepeș with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, parental licensing program, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 41.856 billion Nosferatus 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crypt. The average income tax rate is 47.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient undead economy, worth an astonishing 10,488 trillion blood barrels 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 250,580 blood barrels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, ill and injured visitors in Black Ivars have to walk it off until they return home, and truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Black Ivars's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is necromancy.

Black Ivars is ranked 158,519^th in the world and 3,467^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.46 law-abiding acts per hour.