The Working and Mercantile Sneks of Strala is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Ya Yingtan with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 13.269 billion Stralans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Somewhere. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Stralan economy, worth a remarkable 4,278 trillion Denarii a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 322,471 Denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, Ya Yingtan's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strala's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is God Snek.

Strala is ranked 37,218^th in the world and 481^st in the Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,777.17 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.