The Most Serene Republic of Strathae is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by High Chieftain with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, ritual sacrifices, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, humorless population of 5.274 billion Strathaeans 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, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sruighlea. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Strathaean economy, worth 872 trillion Copars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 165,480 Copars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strathae's national animal is the Haggis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Breizhighism.

Strathae is ranked 1,249^th in the world and 3^rd in European Union for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 100.02 Effective Tax Rate.