The Music of The Last Straw is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 6.243 billion Last Strawians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Last Strawian economy, worth 302 trillion deniers 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 Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, 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 48,517 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Last Strawians suffer not the eggplant emoji to live, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', and strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Last Straw's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Last Straw is ranked 78,690^th in the world and 413^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.74 law-abiding acts per hour.