The Guardianship of Saints Maleficent and Ravenna is a massive, safe nation, ruled by HH Metropolitan Theophany I of All Goths with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 2.081 billion Goths 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Árheimar. The average income tax rate is 41.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gothic economy, worth 51.3 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,658 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, Saints Maleficent and Ravenna has designated Árheimar as its capital city, and HH Metropolitan Theophany I of All Goths has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saints Maleficent and Ravenna's national animal is the raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Saints Maleficent and Ravenna is ranked 236,406^th in the world and 38^th in One big Island for Highest Drug Use, scoring 3.6 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.