The People's Republic of Velah is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Comrade Lev Verdiyev with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.073 billion Velahis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caligangrad. The average income tax rate is 18.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Velahian economy, worth a remarkable 2,193 trillion Rubles 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. 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 impressive 104,101 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters, dinner parties often end in politically charged fist fights, commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all, and troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Velah's national animal is the Velahi Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Velah is ranked 126,864^th in the world and 6,843^rd in Balder for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 609.86 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.