The United Federation of Lingang is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord Hanna Welburg with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.047 billion Linganese 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strautenburg. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Linganese economy, worth a remarkable 7,873 trillion Mooks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 341,615 Mooks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school, teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house, and the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lingang's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lawfordian Christianity.

Lingang is ranked 268,725^th in the world and 142^nd in South Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 5.34 Obesity Rate.