The Republic of Longingland is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Nikolai Rasmussen with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and vat-grown people. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 7.158 billion Longwegians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hammerhal. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Longwegian economy, worth 709 trillion Kronor 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 99,052 Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", smoking is banned in public areas, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, and all alcohol is banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Longingland's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of the United.

Longingland is ranked 19,580^th in the world and 121^st in Forest for Most Cultured, scoring 88 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.