The Vegas Lovin' Goose of Golden Goose is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 40.792 billion Golden Gooseans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Golden Goosean economy, worth 138 trillion Golden Nuggets 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 3,395 Golden Nuggets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Golden Goose's national animal is the Golden Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Golden Goose is ranked 85,177^th in the world and 1^st in The Pond for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.83 law-abiding acts per hour.