The Tenebrae Imperium is an secretive nation located Western European, occupying all of the Iberian Peninsula. The empire was founded in 1954, following the murder of Francisco Franco by Samson P. Skulow, a former British officer living in exile in Spain. He molded the nation in an advanced state, closed off from the influences of the outside world, and building a new culture tailor made for easily controlling the new empire. Tenebrae shares a border with France and Euskadi to the north. Skulow continued Franco's policy of a closed economy, doing well to build up the strength of the economy, and succeding somewhat in developing a true autarky.