The Valley of Chula is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Praetor with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, lack of airports, and smutty television. The compassionate, humorless population of 19.414 billion Romulans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ki Baratan. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Romulan economy, worth a remarkable 1,085 trillion talons 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 mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 55,905 talons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Ki Baratan's playgrounds, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chula's national animal is the set'leth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chula is ranked 268,928^th in the world and 15^th in Codswallop for Fattest Citizens, with 5.49 Obesity Rate.