The Community of Lindau is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 18.216 billion Lindauans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.1%.

The very strong Lindauan economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion denars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,667 denars, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy, and executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lindau's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lindau is ranked 51,180^th in the world and 9^th in Lennart for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.