The Republic of Valadin is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 3.239 billion Valadinians 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, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carna. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Valadinian economy, worth 319 trillion vals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 98,780 vals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion, discarded pennies litter the streets, suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, and many marriages go virtually unconsummated. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valadin's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valadin is ranked 20,125^th in the world and 1,173^rd in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 92 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.