The United Councils of Longvalley is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairman Tegethoff with an even hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, vat-grown people, and digital currency. The compassionate population of 1.017 billion Longvalleyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freehaven. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Longvalleyian economy, worth 90.2 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 88,681 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million guilders of property damage, the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Longvalley's national animal is the Wolpertinger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State atheism.

Longvalley is ranked 313,542^nd in the world and 5,111^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -13.78 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.