The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.265 billion Valoptians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Valoptian economy, worth a remarkable 2,083 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 488,602 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,584,210 per year while the poor average 113,710, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain, it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food', politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, and Valoptians are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valoptia's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Valoptia is ranked 933^rd in the world and 28^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 25,911.35 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.