The Confederacy of Valdra is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 205 million Valdrans 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Valdran economy, worth 17.8 trillion Valdran dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 86,933 Valdran dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay, saying 'Hi Guys' to a mixed gender group of people at work is a fireable offense, Valdra has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, and Leader can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime is totally unknown. Valdra's national animal is the capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valdra is ranked 265,691^st in the world and 186^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -5.29 on the Hickory Productivity Index.