The Vanguard Army of Linkhere is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Supreme People's War Council with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 1.992 billion Iroccopendians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of People's Megalopolis. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Linkherean economy, worth 17.6 trillion ABOLISHEDS 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 8,827 ABOLISHEDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, the School of Hard Knocks is receiving record application numbers., virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, and open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linkhere's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is NA.

Linkhere is ranked 241,321^st in the world and 1^st in Trollistan for Largest Black Market, with 225 billion Standard Monetary Units.