The State of Godfrey is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 20.103 billion Godfreyians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The thriving Godfreyian economy, worth 616 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 30,679 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 88,851 per year while the poor average 8,394, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, Godfrey has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Godfrey in an international press conference. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Godfrey's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Godfrey is ranked 263,195^th in the world and 500^th in United States of America for Lowest Crime Rates, with 43.49 law-abiding acts per hour.