The Syndicalist Kingdom of Sanctus Longinus is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Rex Andreas with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 7.528 billion Longinis 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Centuriopolis. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Longinus economy, worth 975 trillion Lire 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 129,556 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small shoes often wash up on the beach, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, and the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sanctus Longinus's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Sanctus Longinus is ranked 4,058^th in the world and 3^rd in Union of Christian Nations for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 16,369.49 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.