The State of Valles Marineris Base is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 12.444 billion Valles Marineris Baseans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The strong Valles Marineris Basean economy, worth 858 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is 68,999 betales, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

All writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, organ donation is compulsory, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, and kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Valles Marineris Base's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Valles Marineris Base is ranked 40,510^th in the world and 1^st in The Northern Pacific for Safest, scoring 105.63 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.