The Disputed Territories of Malefica is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 832 million Maleficans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Red Desertia. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Malefican economy, worth 63.6 trillion Deniers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,426 Deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malefica's national animal is the Face-eating Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Malefica is ranked 62,673^rd in the world and 40^th in Hell for Safest, scoring 97.98 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.