The People's Republic of Valikor is a small, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 29 million Valikorians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.5%.

The very strong Valikorian economy, worth 1.73 trillion Centenials a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,530 Centenials, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Only native-born Valikorians who have never left the nation are permitted to run for office, the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, and life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valikor's national animal is the Drew, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Valikor is ranked 240,549^th in the world and 2^nd in Erkimera for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 208.37 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.