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The Empire of The Holy Goat

“In Goat we trust”

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The Empire of The Holy Goat is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 353 million Goatesians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goatopia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Goatese economy, worth 46.2 trillion Goatcoins 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 an impressive 130,820 Goatcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 380,104 per year while the poor average 35,633, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, government statistics suggest 115% of the population love Leader, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Goatopia, and the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Holy Goat's national animal is the Goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Holy Goat is ranked 114,650^th in the world and 71^st in Karma for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,284.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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