The Music of The Last Straw is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 6.329 billion Last Strawians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Last Strawian economy, worth 311 trillion deniers 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. 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 49,197 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum, every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists, and litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Last Straw's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Last Straw is ranked 16,643^rd in the world and 17^th in Far East Oriental Federation for Safest, scoring 115.71 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.