The People's Republic of Goitacaba is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 72 million Goitacabans, 68 million of whom are zombies, are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kakaratape. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Goitacaban economy, worth 18.8 trillion guarás a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 49,856 guarás, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, and jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Goitacaba's national animal is the crested caracara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Goitacaba is ranked 14,877^th in the world and 286^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,414.24 on the Clooney Contribution Index.