The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.305 billion Valoptians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The income tax rate is 100.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Valoptian economy, worth a remarkable 2,107 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 489,521 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,705,678 per year while the poor average 102,288, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, small shoes often wash up on the beach, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, and excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valoptia's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Valoptia is ranked 285,478^th in the world and 1,373^rd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.83 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.