The Commonwealth of Valhelmry is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 279 million Valhelmryians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 62.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Valhelmryian economy, worth 11.4 trillion Valhelmrian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 40,811 Valhelmrian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, and the most notorious criminals are given the Consequences of Your Actions Award. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valhelmry's national animal is the Aquila Chrysaetos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valhelmry is ranked 26,251^st in the world and 64^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Accessible, scoring 448.8 on the Keller-Reeve Index.