The United States of Valgasia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 355 million Valgasians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valzglow. The average income tax rate is 43.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Valgasian economy, worth 35.4 trillion Valgasian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,689 Valgasian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

You're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valgasia's national animal is the Valgasian Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Valgasia is ranked 77,482^nd in the world and 787^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 91.95 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.