The Venusian Free Settlement of Valehart is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Councilor Kase-Zheng Qiu-Roberts with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 10.226 billion Valehartines enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Concord District. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Valehartine economy, worth a remarkable 1,764 trillion Venusian-Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 172,549 Venusian-Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Valehartine lands, the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms, and television executives are interested in turning Councilor Kase-Zheng Qiu-Roberts's zany home life into a sitcom. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Valehart's national animal is the Red-Crowned Crane, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Valehart is ranked 274,948^th in the world and 23^rd in Greater Temecula for Most Cultured, scoring 54 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.