The Community of Dark scythe is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Daurk Tempest with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 10.618 billion Scytheans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sangmon. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Scythean economy, worth 576 trillion Drakis a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,313 Drakis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Daurk Tempest spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, and political dissidents are cut off from essential services. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark scythe's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Dragonism.

Dark scythe is ranked 17,472^nd in the world and 956^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 23.8 average smiles per day.