The Empire of Vaelkor is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The cynical population of 93 million Vaelkorians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.3%.

The strong Vaelkorian economy, worth 6.46 trillion Kors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,504 Kors, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 204,239 per year while the poor average 18,634, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Protests are prohibited from blocking traffic, commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vaelkor's national animal is the Aigle royal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Vaelkor is ranked 170,340^th in the world and 581^st in Concord for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,576.8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.