The Emirate of Strop is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 23.205 billion Stropians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Stropian economy, worth 368 trillion Franks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Soda Sales, Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 15,882 Franks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year, surveillance cameras are banned, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Strop's national animal is the camel.

Strop is ranked 88,923^rd in the world and 2,960^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring 15.81 on the Scary Big Number Scale.