The Galactic Commonwealth of Linnosa is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Star-Chancellor Nathan Gawlik with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 13.347 billion Linnosix love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Linnopolis. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Linnosi economy, worth a remarkable 2,000 trillion sterlings a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 149,892 sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing, the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered, and years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linnosa's national animal is the sea eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Wesleyanism.

Linnosa is ranked 25,462^nd in the world and 1,612^th in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 244.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.