The City of Stralsund is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Alexander Badrow with an iron fist, and renowned for its burgeoning eagle population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 27.85 billion Stralsunders are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stralsund. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.1%.

The very strong Stralsunder economy, worth a remarkable 1,094 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Retail. Average income is 39,309 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 120,081 per year while the poor average 9,973, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, Stralsund has designated Stralsund as its capital city, Alexander Badrow has just been declared ruler of Stralsund in an international press conference, and Lutheranism has been named as Stralsund's national religion. Crime is a problem. Stralsund's national animal is the eagle and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Stralsund is ranked 318,608^th in the world and 60^th in Cities for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.