The Commonwealth of Longxin is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Cabinet Chief with an even hand, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.314 billion LongXiners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emladen. The average income tax rate is 83.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Longxinian economy, worth 172 trillion univs a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,408 univs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genetic researchers have been expelled, all funding starts one dime at a time, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Longxin's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of The Fool.

Longxin is ranked 312,698^th in the world and 474^th in Starlight for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 21.88 on the Bus Surprisal Index.