The Most Serene and Holy Empire of Gothenmark is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sieglinde II with a fair hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 19.588 billion Goths love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, although Education and Environment are also considered important, while Social Policy is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kronstadt. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Gothic economy, worth a remarkable 5,652 trillion Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 288,565 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, hospitals in Gothenmark are too busy serving the needs of Heiliger Bund to see Goths, and clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gothenmark's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gothic Orthodox Christianity.

Gothenmark is ranked 290,888^th in the world and 7^th in Heiliger Bund for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -36.67 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.