The Dark Empire of Lunar Fall is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Umbra Nightmane with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.716 billion Lunarians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, 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 New Lunar Canterlot. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.4%.

The all-consuming Lunarian economy, worth 143 trillion Bits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 83,493 Bits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,921 per year while the poor average 17,446, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer, Lunarism has been named as Lunar Fall's national religion, and homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lunar Fall's national animal is the Pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lunarism.

Lunar Fall is ranked 143,656^th in the world and 4^th in Union of Pony Nations for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 454.96 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.