The United Federative Republic of Stratovar is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Alexis with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 31.75 billion Strativars 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stratica. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Stratovarian economy, worth a remarkable 6,929 trillion USR credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an amazing 218,251 USR credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork, autocrats are persona non grata, and the nation wears its high incidence of chromosomal diseases as a badge of pride. Crime is totally unknown. Stratovar's national animal is the raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Stratovar is ranked 291,303^rd in the world and 2^nd in United Socialist Republics for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.13 kickbacks per hour.