The Galactic Imperium Invictum of Darkium is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Supreme Emperor with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 30.461 billion Darkians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dawn's City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Darkiumian economy, worth an astonishing 15,393 trillion DSCS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 505,347 DSCS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, sex changes are routinely performed at Darkium's hospitals, criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, and military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Darkium's national animal is the Imperial Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Darkium is ranked 654^th in the world and 31^st in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 458 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.