The United Socialist States of Linnyr is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14 million Linnyri are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Linnyrian economy, worth 352 billion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is 25,203 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", and foreign invaders are putting Linnyrian lab rats out of a job. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linnyr's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Linnyr is ranked 219,056^th in the world and 3,098^th in the South Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 8.81 Obesity Rate.