The Doom Demon of Spider Mastermind is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.542 billion Spider Mastermindians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Spider Mastermindian economy, worth 571 trillion Demon credits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,300 Demon credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

A rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal, the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spider Mastermind's national animal is the Spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spider Mastermind is ranked 12,826^th in the world and 9^th in Shadow Realms for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 85.01 Effective Tax Rate.