The Scientific Powerhouse of Dark Matter is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by General Superintendent with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.766 billion Espers 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, moralistic, 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 Academy City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient scientific economy, worth an astonishing 10,410 trillion Academy City's Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 404,049 Academy City's Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Dark Matter, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, and hunters often become the hunted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Matter's national animal is the Dark Matter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Irreligion.

Dark Matter is ranked 135,713^th in the world and 329^th in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,888.45 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.