The Empire of The Holy Goat is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 398 million Goatesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goatopia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Goatese economy, worth 54.8 trillion Goatcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 137,755 Goatcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 400,253 per year while the poor average 37,522, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones, the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning, veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain, and lavish state dinners in Goatopia are the state's leading budgetary expenditure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Holy Goat's national animal is the Goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Holy Goat is ranked 262,380^th in the world and 194^th in Karma for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -7.75 on the Clooney Contribution Index.