The Plurinational Monarchy of Valongo is a massive, safe nation, ruled by William IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, flagrant waste-dumping, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.035 billion valongoans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belfort. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.7%.

The frighteningly efficient valongoan economy, worth 134 trillion coroas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 129,741 coroas, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is spending billions of coroas on helping citizens find spiritual enlightenment, prominent cultural symbols are featured on the backs of cereal boxes, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, and homophobia is off the menu. Crime is totally unknown. Valongo's national animal is the maned wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Valongo is ranked 16,931^st in the world and 45^th in Carcassonne for Smartest Citizens, with 73.73 quips per hour.