The People's Republic of Strindle is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 720 million Strindleans 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rio-Upon-Avon. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Strindlean economy, worth 64.6 trillion dabloons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Book Publishing. Average income is 89,679 dabloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to Strindle's border, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", and elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume. Crime is totally unknown. Strindle's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Strindle is ranked 22,817^th in the world and 16^th in Fallen Nations for Highest Poor Incomes, with 87,002.96 Standard Monetary Units.