The Frontier of Shadow Stone is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Kythorn with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.66 billion Shadow Stoneans 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Invictus. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shadow Stonean economy, worth 202 trillion Ducts a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,153 Ducts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets, Invictus's iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen, genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons, and some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shadow Stone's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Verus.

Shadow Stone is ranked 66,725^th in the world and 50^th in Karma for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,564.48 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.