The Empire of The Holy Goat is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 435 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 64.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Goatese economy, worth 61.1 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 140,475 Goatcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

The restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, and excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions. 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 138,443^rd in the world and 96^th in Karma for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,498.32 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.