The Armed Republic of Lingu is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Mirko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, free-roaming dinosaurs, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.081 billion Linguans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Linguan economy, worth 444 trillion hounds a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 213,620 hounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of bloodhounds and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, and the word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Linguan Colonial Thesaurus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lingu's national animal is the bloodhound, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lingu is ranked 242,517^th in the world and 7,956^th in The East Pacific for Best Weather, with -146 Meters Of Sunlight.