The Empire of Goblin 44 is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, anti-smoking policies, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.98 billion Goblin 44ians 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 prioritizes Administration, although Education, Industry, and Defense are also considered important, while Social Policy is ignored. The average income tax rate is 41.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Goblin 44ian economy, worth 720 trillion guilders 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 Gambling, Retail, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. 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 72,197 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin, all footpaths have tollbooths, groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, and bars are packed at all hours. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Goblin 44's national animal is the kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Goblin 44 is ranked 290,534^th in the world and 26^th in Gobbotopia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 47.78 law-abiding acts per hour.