The United Union of Stralfcyde is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Laura Sky with an even hand, and notable for its enslaved workforce, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 2.993 billion Stralfcydians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capa City. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stralfcydian economy, worth 361 trillion Stralf Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 120,686 Stralf Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It turns out you can teach cats new tricks, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, and students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stralfcyde's national animal is the Stralf Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jacouba.

Stralfcyde is ranked 51,016^th in the world and 1,216^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,777.04 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.