The Republic of Markostvo is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 636 million Markostvoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novigrad. The average income tax rate is 62.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Markostvoan economy, worth 34.5 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,271 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders, faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, no one knows how to tie a reef knot, and legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Markostvo's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Markostvo is ranked 9,158^th in the world and 2^nd in Slavia for Safest, scoring 120.58 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.