The United Socialist States of Lynisee is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 609 million Lyniseeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Lyniseean economy, worth 13.7 trillion Jaruks 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Basket Weaving. Average income is 22,421 Jaruks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pregnant women make easy targets, drunk drivers are sentenced to death, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, and flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lynisee's national animal is the Raven , which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lynisee is ranked 32,763^rd in the world and 2^nd in Tenenget for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,489.94 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.