The Community of Gouching Hippies is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, public floggings, and zero percent divorce rate. The devout population of 15.698 billion Gouching Hippiesians are prohibited from doing almost everything but make sure no one in government gets away with anything either.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.8%.

The large but inefficient Gouching Hippiesian economy, worth 688 trillion lids 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Soda Sales. 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 43,846 lids, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Kids are exceptionally good at digging holes, hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, and environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gouching Hippies's national animal is the roach, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gouching Hippies is ranked 279,542^nd in the world and 2^nd in Central Under Leal for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -25.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.