The Community of The Mother Goose is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ole King Cole with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.398 billion Mother Gooseans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gingerbread House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.8%.

The all-consuming Mother Goosean economy, worth 535 trillion Golden Eggs a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Trout Farming. Average income is 83,626 Golden Eggs, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in Gingerbread House, and there's a mortuary next to every Mother Goosean restaurant. Crime is well under control. The Mother Goose's national animal is the Fiddling Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nursery Rhymes.

The Mother Goose is ranked 158,593^rd in the world and 9,935^th in Lazarus for Largest Governments, scoring 12.61 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.