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The Shadow State of Pre-Phantomism is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Al-Hani with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, rampant corporate plagiarism, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 4.221 billion Pre-Phantoms are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shadow Metropolis Total District. The average income tax rate is 38.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Pre-Phantomis economy, worth 344 trillion Phantomismals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,585 Phantomismals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away, legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, and all beauty contests have been banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pre-Phantomism's national animal is the Endangered Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Pre-Phantomism is ranked 268,688^th in the world and 66^th in Wintercrest for Most Cultured, scoring 60 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.