The United Federation of Lingang is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord Hanna Welburg with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 31.875 billion Linganese 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 Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strautenburg. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Linganese economy, worth an astonishing 11,028 trillion Mooks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 345,993 Mooks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather, and an increasing number of knights in shining armor suffer from PTSD. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lingang's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lawfordian Christianity.

Lingang is ranked 219^th in the world and 2^nd in South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 16,930 trillion Standard Monetary Units.