The Cartography Council of Valsora is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Valsoran Cartography Council with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 11.845 billion Valsorans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with International Aid and Spirituality not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paint Dot Net. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The strong Valsoran economy, worth 757 trillion Maps a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 63,934 Maps, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 412,065 per year while the poor average 4,007, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Valsora has designated Paint Dot Net as its capital city, The Valsoran Cartography Council has just been declared ruler of Valsora in an international press conference, and Cartographism has been named as Valsora's national religion. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Valsora's national animal is the Cartographer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cartographism.

Valsora is ranked 55,080^th in the world and 676^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,465.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.