The Empire of Stranglermen is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.318 billion Stranglermenians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strangefulien. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.4%.

The thriving Stranglermenian economy, worth 111 trillion killcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 84,668 killcoins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,865 per year while the poor average 11,560, a ratio of 33.0 to 1.

A positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough', defense lawyers often argue there's no proof murder victims weren't vampires, and wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stranglermen's national animal is the Beartanglers, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Stranglermen is ranked 126,894^th in the world and 395^th in The Rubber Room for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,144.84 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.