The State of Goodhouse is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 37.481 billion Goodhouseans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Education, although Spirituality is also considered important, while Defense and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The powerhouse Goodhousean economy, worth a remarkable 1,807 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 48,221 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 160,497 per year while the poor average 10,795, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and Goodhouse has designated Central Heights as its capital city. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Goodhouse's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Goodhouse is ranked 273,122^nd in the world and 653^rd in United States of America for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.69 kickbacks per hour.