The Reusable Bamboo Spoons of Likhinia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the people with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, pith helmet sales, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 4.99 billion Likhinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of reality. The average income tax rate is 87.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Likhinian economy, worth 332 trillion monetary units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is 66,619 monetary units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Likhinia, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university, and treason is relative. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Likhinia's national animal is the cloud, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is TCB solidarity.

Likhinia is ranked 7,440^th in the world and 211^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 8,695.54 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.