The Precious Moments of Strawberry Swing is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, absence of drug laws, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.491 billion Strawberry Swingians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Strawberry Swingian economy, worth 852 trillion swings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 131,363 swings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 676,014 per year while the poor average 13,942, a ratio of 48.5 to 1.

You can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, the homeless more often beg for mercy than money, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Strawberry Swing, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strawberry Swing's national animal is the strawberry, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Strawberry Swing is ranked 36,549^th in the world and 195^th in Stereo Hearts for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.22 law-abiding acts per hour.