The Borderlands of Dark Disaster is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its lack of airports, ban on automobiles, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 12.004 billion Dark Disasterians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 86.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Dark Disasterian economy, worth a remarkable 2,198 trillion AK-47s a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 183,145 AK-47s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work, people who have lived their entire lives in Dark Disaster are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, the nation's iron imports are booming, and the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Disaster's national animal is the Worm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Dark Disaster is ranked 46,655^th in the world and 66^th in Yggdrasil for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.19 law-abiding acts per hour.