The Commonwealth of Stromia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Tyr Backstrom with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, frequent executions, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cheerful population of 37.263 billion Stromians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Linkoping. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Stromian economy, worth a remarkable 6,241 trillion Quints 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 mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 167,511 Quints, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned, and the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stromia's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Anunnakiism.

Stromia is ranked 290,864^th in the world and 1,466^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -48.25 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.