The Money of Stal Valley is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Ultimate evil money leader XVII with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, triple-decker prams, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.733 billion Stal Vallains 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 minute, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Industry, with Spirituality, Defense, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Education receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Money. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Stal Valleyian economy, worth 598 trillion Monies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 219,026 Monies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,274,164 per year while the poor average 17,798, a ratio of 71.6 to 1.

The government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens, the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, and citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Stal Valley's national animal is the Human, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Stal Valley is ranked 30,377^th in the world and 912^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,630.55 on the Gilded Widget Scale.