The Kingdom of Gotland is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by the King and the Chancellor with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.454 billion Goths are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karlsburg. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Gothic economy, worth 281 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 20,922 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, spontaneous nocturnal decapitation is considered 'death by natural causes' for enemies of Gotland, the well-off can quite literally buy extra votes, and pawn shop reality shows dominate basic cable. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gotland's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Gotland.

Gotland is ranked 60,274^th in the world and 469^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 99.84 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.