The Republic of Valley of Dreadful Death is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 5.453 billion Valley of Dreadful Deathians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The very strong Valley of Dreadful Deathian economy, worth 290 trillion rubledollars a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 53,310 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 252,939 per year while the poor average 6,630, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Valley of Dreadful Death's national animal is the hawk.

Valley of Dreadful Death is ranked 146,371^st in the world and 5,511^th in Suspicious for Most Corrupt Governments, with 3.5 kickbacks per hour.