The Disputed Territories of Malefica is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 704 million Maleficans 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 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 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Malefican economy, worth 54.3 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 77,153 Deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little 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 37,686^th in the world and 26^th in Hell for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.69 law-abiding acts per hour.