The Empire of Vallangast is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 4.721 billion Vallangastians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vekta. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Vallangastian economy, worth 942 trillion Vektan Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 199,726 Vektan Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch, the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived, Leader is quite hard to get a hold of, and citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vallangast's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Vallangast is ranked 5,869^th in the world and 130^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 525.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.