The United Socialist States of Gobania is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Gob with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.539 billion Gobanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gob City. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Gobanian economy, worth 384 trillion Gob bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 69,461 Gob bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, populations of two-headed Bogs have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, and Gob has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gobania's national animal is the Bog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gobania is ranked 3,790^th in the world and 80^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,126.24 on the Clooney Contribution Index.