The Most Serene Republic of Blood Valley is a huge, pleasant nation, notable for its suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 569 million Blood Valleyians 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 12.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Blood Valleyian economy, worth 26.7 trillion PaperKrets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is 46,875 PaperKrets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

School uniforms are compulsory, environmental legislation occurs cyclically, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and the studies of art and philosophy are banned. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Blood Valley's national animal is the Dove.

Blood Valley is ranked 270,341^st in the world and 10^th in New brannack for Largest Governments, scoring 9.17 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.