The Commonwealth of Valhelmry is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 609 million Valhelmryians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valhelmry City. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Valhelmryian economy, worth 28.7 trillion Valhelmrian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 47,174 Valhelmrian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The jails are alive with the sound of birdsong, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, Leader's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and devotion to God is only skin-deep. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valhelmry's national animal is the Aquila Chrysaetos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valhelmry is ranked 186,399^th in the world and 648^th in The Frontier Sea for Highest Average Incomes, with 47,174.71 Standard Monetary Units.