The Empire of The Holy Goat is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 408 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. The average income tax rate is 62.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Goatese economy, worth 55.8 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, fairly 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 136,866 Goatcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, and only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile. 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 177,758^th in the world and 173^rd in Karma for Safest, scoring 55.92 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.