The Reipublica of Lignuntiae is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Consul Justinianus Longinus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.649 billion Lignuns are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantīnopolis. The average income tax rate is 49.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Lignunti economy, worth 127 trillion Denarii 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 77,265 Denarii, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks, golden statues of Iunan Imperial Eagles line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and private law firms are unheard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lignuntiae's national animal is the Iunan Imperial Eagle.

Lignuntiae is ranked 62,136^th in the world and 34^th in RGBN for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 121.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.