sythe

I'd tend to recommend Tululoo or ImpactJS.  Both of them will run natively on Linux.

Antarctica.  Sure, it's cold, but it's also classified as international territory.  Provided that a game company allows remote workers, it'd actually be a pretty reasonable place to live.

• Sensible leaders and politics (More or less)
• Good education system (Extremely hands-on learning)
• Good social opportunities for my future children (China and Japan sound cool and all, but there's too much pressure on school work there IMO; somewhere where a kid can be a kid, but still gain a good education) (Probably)
• Good standard of living for someone in the CS industry (Probably)
• Good work opportunities for someone in the CS industry (I haven't decided a particular area in CS yet) (Probably, working remotely would cover this)
• Not over populated (I come from mountainous Utah, so I like a decent amount of space between two houses) (Definitely, in fact, it's one of the most sparsely populated places on Earth)
• Safe (both protected by the government and from the government) (Quite, actually.  Who would attack Antarctica?)
• Speaks English, since that's all I know and the only languages I enjoy learning are programming languages (The majority of the population speaks English)
• Anything else you might think is important (Internet access, unspoiled natural beauty, fresh air, hot springs on Deception Island...
• Oh, and the satisfaction of picking "Antarctica" as your country when creating accounts for web services.)

The only caveat is that you have to join a research team/group attached to a country/organization.