The Empire of Goblin 4 is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its lack of airports, national health service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.784 billion Goblin 4ians 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, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Administration, with Healthcare, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Education and International Aid receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 41.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Goblin 4ian economy, worth 714 trillion rupees 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 55,853 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the state subsidizes liposuction, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and Leader is the self-declared God of all Goblin 4. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Goblin 4's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Goblin 4 is ranked 310,086^th in the world and 29^th in Gobbotopia for Nicest Citizens, with 0.71 average smiles per day.