The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, parental licensing program, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.286 billion Valoptians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Valoptian economy, worth a remarkable 2,099 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 489,814 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,686,206 per year while the poor average 104,244, a ratio of 16.2 to 1.

No personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, nobility is the world's oldest profession, a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true, and public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valoptia's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Valoptia is ranked 222,766^th in the world and 686^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.