The United Federation of Waldoven is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Antonius Maesdi with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 8.738 billion Waldovians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Takti. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Waldovian economy, worth a remarkable 1,567 trillion Mals a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 179,342 Mals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns, the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation, and new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them. Crime is totally unknown. Waldoven's national animal is the Dolfini, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Alinstoren's Path.

Waldoven is ranked 289,955^th in the world and 11,218^th in Balder for Most Primitive, scoring -656.65 on the Scary Big Number Scale.