The United Socialist States of Linnyr is a large, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 154 million Linnyri 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.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Linnyrian economy, worth 7.75 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 50,332 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisons in Linnyr are the summer homes of murderers, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, museum visitors often bring lemons and black lights, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linnyr's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Linnyr is ranked 294,302^nd in the world and 3,631^st in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 23.85 on the Bus Surprisal Index.