The phrase shows up attached to an in world television show, and some of the merchandise in the edition copy references it.
So is Goodtime State the nickname for Leonida the way Sunshine State works in real life, or is it the setting of the show within the game and therefore a different fictional place? Small thing but it keeps coming up and nobody seems sure.
Accepted answer
Goodtime State appears attached to an in world television show and to merchandise referencing that show. It is not used as a name for Leonida in any official description I have found.
Most likely reading is that it is the show's setting or its tagline, in the way a real tourism slogan works. Leonida is the state. Goodtime State is what the show calls it.
Buying a t shirt of a fake cartoon from a fake show inside a game is the most Rockstar thing on the entire edition list.
Macca the Gator being merchandising inside a game that is itself merchandising is very funny and I had not connected it to the state nickname.
sunshine state, goodtime state. its a tourism slogan joke and the joke is that the show is about a talking alligator
The existence of a hit in world television show with its own merchandise line implies a media layer in this game beyond radio and adverts.