The Republic of Stratsburg is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 279 million Stratsburgians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 51.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Stratsburgian economy, worth 7.37 trillion Stratus a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,430 Stratus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism, owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation, and the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stratsburg's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stratsburg is ranked 140,404^th in the world and 173^rd in Conch Kingdom for Most Corrupt Governments, with 4.26 kickbacks per hour.