The Free Citizenry of Val Cathyr is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ashiryn Silvergate with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.022 billion Val Cathyrians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lym Shaeris. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Val Cathyrian economy, worth 193 trillion courts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,874 courts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, every workday begins with group therapy, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Val Cathyr's national animal is the possum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Untraveled Path.

Val Cathyr is ranked 24,926^th in the world and 7^th in Arkonos for Safest, scoring 111.43 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.