The United Commonwealth of Stravonskaya is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by House of Delegates with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.687 billion Stravonskans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dzhuno-na-Petrovu. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Stravonskan economy, worth a remarkable 1,479 trillion Labor Vouchers 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 192,435 Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sun now sets on the Stravonskan Empire, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, the Stravonskan Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, and tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash. Crime is totally unknown. Stravonskaya's national animal is the white-shouldered eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secular Pluralism.

Stravonskaya is ranked 3,061^st in the world and 38^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 210 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.