The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, digital currency, and sprawling nuclear power plants. 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 2,098 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 489,717 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,677,241 per year while the poor average 105,036, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Red Panda', no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, and nobility is the world's oldest profession. 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 221,989^th in the world and 688^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.