Malta

Malta is a European nation comprised by a handful of islands in the Mediterranean. Due to its strategic location due south of Sicily, Malta has been a military stronghold throughout history for numerous empires who were hoping for a good look at what those sneaky Italians were up to and, on occasion, for those sneaky Italians, who are just kind of narcissistic if you ask me. Throughout the 19th century, Malta's economy was based on cotton, shipbuilding, and "what dreams are made of" (Author's Note: That's a Humphrey Bogart reference. Ask your parents). The latter resource is no longer available, owing to the events of World War II, when the Maltese archipelago got blowed up real good and flooded the Mediterranean with dreams (it took years for the southern European fishing industry to recover). Malta has a rich religious history, thought by many Christian scholars to be a place where St. John once went by accident when he was shipwrecked on his way to, I dunno, the Cannes Film Festival or something. Malta is also home to the Megalithic Temples, the oldest free-standing structures in Europe.

The Megalithic Temples were built more than 3000 years before the invention of Jesus Christ, so it pretty much goes without saying that whoever built them is in Hell now. Whoops.