The Reusable Bamboo Spoons of Likhinia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the people with an even hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 3.5 billion Likhinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of reality. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Likhinian economy, worth 227 trillion monetary units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. Average income is 64,892 monetary units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Likhinia, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university, and treason is relative. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Likhinia's national animal is the cloud, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is TCB solidarity.

Likhinia is ranked 246,893^rd in the world and 816^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.07 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.