The Turntech Godhead of Dave Strider is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.405 billion Dave Striderians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Dave Striderian economy, worth 784 trillion grists 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, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 93,299 grists, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

It is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes, the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system, one does not simply walk into the tundra, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dave Strider's national animal is the puppet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dave Strider is ranked 38,820^th in the world and 7^th in Homestuck for Largest Black Market, with 32.4 trillion Standard Monetary Units.