The Dark Light of Bad Moon is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by MrMoon with an iron fist, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, strictly enforced bedtime, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 40.687 billion Bad Moonians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BadMoonCity. The average income tax rate is 73.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Bad Moonian economy, worth a remarkable 8,569 trillion moonbeams a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 210,611 moonbeams, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Binoculars sales are at an all-time high, the nation frequently puts profits over peace, the sudden rash of anti-drug laws has left everyone dazed and confused, and the alien invasion siren sounds eerily like a UFO. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bad Moon's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Atheism.

Bad Moon is ranked 329,867^th in the world and 221^st in Nederland for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -17.44 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.