The Indipendant Colony of Golden Gate Park is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by That Hippie Over There with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 12.638 billion Golden Gate Parkians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden Gate Park. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Golden Gate Parkian economy, worth a remarkable 1,564 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 123,819 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Boys who even ask about cheerleading are placed on the Sex Offenders Register, a The City And County Of San Francisco Tourist Association survey has rated Golden Gate Park #1 for number twos, otters have more rights than the average citizen, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime is totally unknown. Golden Gate Park's national animal is the otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Hippies.

Golden Gate Park is ranked 49,781^st in the world and 3^rd in The City And County Of San Francisco for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 621 on the Clooney Contribution Index.