The State of Godsek is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 15.632 billion Godsekians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Public Transport, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Godsekian economy, worth 524 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. Average income is 33,581 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and Godsek has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Godsek's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Godsek is ranked 40,984^th in the world and 1^st in The Republic of California for Most Beautiful Environments, with 738.6 pounds of wildlife per square mile.