The United Socialist States of Valan Prala is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 371 million Valan Pralans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valangrad. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Valan Pralan economy, worth 41.8 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 112,725 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques, and ghost regiments exist only on paper. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valan Prala's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Valan Prala is ranked 18,831^st in the world and 205^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 90 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.