The Republic of Linear Function is a mammoth, cultured nation, notable for its parental licensing program, disturbing lack of elderly people, and enslaved workforce. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.228 billion Linear Functionians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Linear Functionian economy, worth a remarkable 1,252 trillion numbers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 152,282 numbers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 570,206 per year while the poor average 28,452, a ratio of 20.0 to 1.

The government is under the thumb of countless special interests, delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Linear Function flights to avoid the pay lavatories, and there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linear Function's national animal is the math, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Linear Function is ranked 41,066^th in the world and 614^th in Giovanniland for Most Developed, scoring 79.62 on the Human Development Index.