The Venusian Free Settlement of Valehart is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Councillor Kase-Zheng Qiu-Roberts with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 15.462 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, liberal 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 4.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Valehartine economy, worth a remarkable 2,659 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 172,025 Venusian-Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

It's said that a Valehartine always pays his debts with significant compounding, pregnancy tests are under fire from the government for being marketed only to women, almost every singles' party has a clergy and courtesans theme, and an internet search for the word "bland" produces pictures of Councillor Kase-Zheng Qiu-Roberts. 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 313,766^th in the world and 12,970^th in Lazarus for Longest Average Lifespans, with 29.53 years.