The Commonwealth of Valhelmry is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 730 million Valhelmryians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valhelmry City. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Valhelmryian economy, worth 45.0 trillion Valhelmrian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is 61,654 Valhelmrian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers, tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, a government program is underway to revitalize Valhelmry's beaches, and the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valhelmry's national animal is the Aquila Chrysaetos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valhelmry is ranked 44,689^th in the world and 85^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,136.95 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.