The Working and Mercantile Sneks of Strala is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Ya Yingtan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, public floggings, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.466 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 dominated by the Department of Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Somewhere. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Stralan economy, worth an astonishing 12,516 trillion Denarii a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 677,814 Denarii, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has always been at war with Bigtopia, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, and talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction. 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 332,297^th in the world and 3,252^nd in the Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 7.12 on the Kitten Softness Rating.