The United Star Empire of Valinon is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Empress Friedelinde Alderman with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cheerful population of 45.625 billion Valinors enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Köln. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Valinonian economy, worth an astonishing 18,314 trillion Reichsmarks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 401,422 Reichsmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,200,677 per year while the poor average 104,960, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Old folks yearn for the days when young people saw bloodthirsty death matches with their own eyes instead of through a screen, it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again, prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, and when their backs are against the walls Valinors look out for gay men. Crime is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Valinon's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Valinon is ranked 15,644^th in the world and 1^st in Raumreich Oversector for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,201.95 pounds of wildlife per square mile.