The Empire of Goblin 47 is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.557 billion Goblin 47ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.3%.

The strong Goblin 47ian economy, worth 678 trillion dollars 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 black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. 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 70,980 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 206,160 per year while the poor average 19,343, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, and Leader signs the laws but abides by none of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Goblin 47's national animal is the crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Goblin 47 is ranked 129,694^th in the world and 7^th in Gobbotopia for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 9,416.48 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.