The United Socialist States of Valt is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working population of 3.559 billion Valtians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 17.7%.

The Valtian economy, worth 188 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is 53,016 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, high school bands practice by moonlight, Valtian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Valt's national animal is the Kitsune, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Valt is ranked 183,712^th in the world and 331^st in Alliance of Storage Power for Highest Food Quality, scoring 14.13 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.