The Federal Republic of Vitriava is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and avant-garde cinema. The cynical, devout population of 307 million Valonians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 45.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Valonian economy, worth 17.7 trillion Parsches a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,754 Parsches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many aides in Leader's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, and organisations with 800 in their phone number are often raided by special forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vitriava's national animal is the Kinchaga Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Vitriava is ranked 187,398^th in the world and 780^th in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 180.3 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.