The Directorate of Valkalan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Director Vikko with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, digital currency, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 35.158 billion Valks are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ravingard. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Valk economy, worth an astonishing 27,948 trillion Syns a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 794,931 Syns, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,330,691 per year while the poor average 74,879, a ratio of 57.8 to 1.

The law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it, visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, and the country is littered with broken homes. Crime is totally unknown. Valkalan's national animal is the Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Valkalan is ranked 30,279^th in the world and 1^st in Zarathustra for Highest Poor Incomes, with 74,879.08 Standard Monetary Units.