The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.279 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 2,092 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 489,088 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,675,085 per year while the poor average 104,901, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, residential tower blocks are surrounded by warrens of concrete tunnels, and patriots insist that size does matter. 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 2,819^th in the world and 57^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3,117.36 pounds of wildlife per square mile.