The Democratic Republic of Valadin is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 8.381 billion Valadinians 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carna. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Valadinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,087 trillion vals 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 129,807 vals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, outdoor parties in Carna are all the rave, refugees from other nations are flocking to Valadin's border, and activists sabotage clean energy in the name of the environment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valadin's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valadin is ranked 2,714^th in the world and 55^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 10,823.7 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.