The State of Allendale Valley is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 44.311 billion Allendale Valleyians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Allendale Valleyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,180 trillion betales a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,641 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, pregnant women make easy targets, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Allendale Valley's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Allendale Valley is ranked 191,041^st in the world and 1^st in Allendale Valley for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.