The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, ban on automobiles, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.31 billion Valoptians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The income tax rate is 100.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Valoptian economy, worth a remarkable 2,109 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 489,376 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,702,216 per year while the poor average 102,528, a ratio of 16.6 to 1.

Small shoes often wash up on the beach, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside, and jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valoptia's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Valoptia is ranked 1,475^th in the world and 11^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 16,935.41 on the Gilded Widget Scale.