The United Kingdom of Lingby is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 814 million Lingbyians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lingbyian economy, worth 19.4 trillion Shillings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gambling, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 23,808 Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lingby's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lingby is ranked 104,783^rd in the world and 11^th in Independent Order for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 840.63 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.