The Community of Valestein is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 18.29 billion Valesteiners are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 60.1%.

The very strong Valesteinish economy, worth 946 trillion gold pieceses a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,770 gold pieceses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Valestein successfully hosted the Lennart Olympics, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valestein's national animal is the blue wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Valestein is ranked 121,915^th in the world and 29^th in Lennart for Largest Governments, scoring 14.93 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.