The Federal Republic of Free Valiva is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 499 million Free Valivans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 62.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Free Valivan economy, worth 48.9 trillion marks a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,020 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Organisations with 800 in their phone number are often raided by special forces, nude art is becoming wildly popular, teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough, and 90% of active duty FVAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Free Valiva's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free Valiva is ranked 38,451^st in the world and 894^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,178.67 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.