The City of Stralsund is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Alexander Badrow with an iron fist, and notable for its burgeoning eagle population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 22.779 billion Stralsunders are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stralsund. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.1%.

The very strong Stralsunder economy, worth 895 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Retail. Average income is 39,309 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 120,081 per year while the poor average 9,973, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, Stralsund has designated Stralsund as its capital city, Alexander Badrow has just been declared ruler of Stralsund in an international press conference, and Lutheranism has been named as Stralsund's national religion. Crime is a problem. Stralsund's national animal is the eagle and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Stralsund is ranked 254,037^th in the world and 6,047^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 49.74 law-abiding acts per hour.