The Dictatorship of a Child of Strawvya is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Ludmila Ostapenko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.06 billion Strawvyans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strawberry City. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Strawvyan economy, worth 84.1 trillion Strawberry Bucks 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 black market in Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 16,621 Strawberry Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, a government program is underway to revitalize Strawvya's beaches, diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, and the police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strawvya's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Strawvyan Esotericism.

Strawvya is ranked 74,182^nd in the world and 9^th in MHBs New Earth for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.