The Working and Mercantile Sneks of Strala is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Ya Yingtan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 13.242 billion Stralans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Somewhere. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Stralan economy, worth a remarkable 4,255 trillion Denarii a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 321,364 Denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, the Police Surveillance Unit's motto is "Gotta Catch 'Em All", the nation has always been at war with Bigtopia, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strala's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is God Snek.

Strala is ranked 293,004^th in the world and 4,202^nd in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -1459.14 on the Scary Big Number Scale.