The People's Paradise of The United Good is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Brother James with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 37.503 billion Goodies 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 Education, Social Policy, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Good City. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The enormous but inefficient Good economy, worth a remarkable 3,833 trillion Ningis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 102,210 Ningis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government-sponsored autobiography 'A Brother James For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Brother James's supporters, editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning, they say that Goodies made a dessert and called it peace, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The United Good's national animal is the ghost oyster, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Truth.

The United Good is ranked 41,124^th in the world and 1^st in The Hill for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 173.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.