The Community of Holland Valley is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by John Seed with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.14 billion Holland Valleyians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fall's End. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Holland Valleyian economy, worth 63.1 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is 55,316 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holland Valley's national animal is the Leafcutter Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Holland Valley is ranked 313,260^th in the world and 4,464^th in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -10 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.