The Protectorate of The Black Pentagram is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 17.392 billion Black Pentagramians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 27.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Black Pentagramian economy, worth 64.6 trillion Pentas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 3,717 Pentas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Black Pentagram's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Black Pentagram is ranked 180,747^th in the world and 3^rd in IDDDP Unions and or Forces for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 28.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.