The Armed Republic of Vallean Rifles is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its triple-decker prams, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.723 billion Vallean Riflesians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jenzi. The average income tax rate is 59.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Vallean Riflesian economy, worth 83.3 trillion Vanes a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,582 Vanes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, unruly children often visit adult websites when angry with their parents, children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school, and the most common answers to where babies come from are "uh... ask your mother" and "um... ask your father". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vallean Rifles's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Vallean Rifles is ranked 305,440^th in the world and 196^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.43 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.