The Royal Federation of Gothic Legion is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Duke of Marshfront with an even hand, and remarkable for its lack of airports, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 1.022 billion Gothic Legionians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ridgeworth Bay. The average income tax rate is 84.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Gothic Legionian economy, worth 113 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 110,762 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nations across the world are quick to praise The Duke of Marshfront's good looks and intellectual prowess, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise The Duke of Marshfront on Gothic Legion's coulrophobia epidemic, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gothic Legion's national animal is the Bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gothic Legion is ranked 164,536^th in the world and 1,448^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 268.66 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.