The Democratic Republic of Valadin is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 8.469 billion Valadinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carna. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Valadinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,099 trillion vals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 129,807 vals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, outdoor parties in Carna are all the rave, refugees from other nations are flocking to Valadin's border, and activists sabotage clean energy in the name of the environment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valadin's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valadin is ranked 26,121^st in the world and 176^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,872.15 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.