The Merry Land of the Fishermen of Strogamehouf is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by King Jack Hauff with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.487 billion Strogamehoufians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strogia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Strogamehoufian economy, worth 232 trillion Fishbones a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Trout Farming, Gambling, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 156,322 Fishbones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,230,352 per year while the poor average 4,925, a ratio of 249 to 1.

Sales of superhero insurance have skyrocketed after the government abandoned the police in favor of vigilantes, guns don't kill people — heroes do, nations that kill a Strogamehoufian can expect a strongly worded letter, and tens of thousands of revelers have been arrested for trying to celebrate the recent world anniversary (Strogamehouf has found 5 easter eggs). Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Strogamehouf's national animal is the Trout, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Fishing.

Strogamehouf is ranked 27,150^th in the world and 5^th in The Guild of Generations for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 5,660.58 on the Hickory Productivity Index.