The Constitutional Monarchy of New Valdres is a massive, safe nation, ruled by King Bear with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, otherworldly petting zoo, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 4.979 billion New Valdresians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elkwood. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Valdresian economy, worth 819 trillion crowns a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,577 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Valdres's national animal is the moose, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New Valdres is ranked 89,555^th in the world and 2^nd in Alliance of Pkardia for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 2,906.2 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.