The United States of Valgasia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 422 million Valgasians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valzglow. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Valgasian economy, worth 43.5 trillion Valgasian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 103,011 Valgasian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, long-wed spouses often regret proposals they made when they were twenty, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, and corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valgasia's national animal is the Valgasian Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Valgasia is ranked 30,438^th in the world and 417^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 217.53 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.