The Colony of Reeducation center for Goose and duck is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Henry Goosnuke with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.855 billion Goosians 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Education are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Gooseluag. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.7%.

The thriving Reeducation center for Goose and duckian economy, worth 265 trillion Powers 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. 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 93,000 Powers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 284,096 per year while the poor average 23,597, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, everybody's got wood thanks to Henry Goosnuke, and major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Reeducation center for Goose and duck's national animal is the Goose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Goosisim.

Reeducation center for Goose and duck is ranked 257,717^th in the world and 8,971^st in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -179.66 on the Scary Big Number Scale.