The Democratic Republic of Stravaa is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by General Secretary Boris Garipov with an iron fist, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.492 billion Stravaans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novostravovsk. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Stravaan economy, worth 147 trillion Rubles 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, 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 59,166 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is in the international closet, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, General Secretary Boris Garipov's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stravaa's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stravaa is ranked 119,934^th in the world and 2^nd in Confederation of Independent Territories for Most Developed, scoring 58.45 on the Human Development Index.