The Shadow Ninja of A Moon Shadow is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, compulsory military service, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.486 billion Shadows are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The all-consuming Shadow economy, worth a remarkable 3,084 trillion Pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 108,282 Pounds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 563,522 per year while the poor average 11,232, a ratio of 50.2 to 1.

Genetic research has been halted, teenage fathers are forced to join the army, skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. A Moon Shadow's national animal is the Shadow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A Moon Shadow is ranked 8,552^nd in the world and 14^th in Yggdrasil for Largest Populations, with 28.5 billion capita.