The Dictatorship of Locus Mortiferum is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Mors Mortem with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, free-roaming dinosaurs, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.752 billion Locus Mortiferumians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Administration and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Public Transport are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inferis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.6%.

The Locus Mortiferumian economy, worth 509 trillion Pains 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, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 75,486 Pains, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 213,083 per year while the poor average 21,406, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, and citizens who become homeless are immediately executed. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Locus Mortiferum's national animal is the Vulture, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Atheism.

Locus Mortiferum is ranked 286,940^th in the world and 11^th in Region Name for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.5 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.