The Great Works of Atelier Valley is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Operator Artella with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 4.722 billion Alchemists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Uniongalaxen. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Alchemian economy, worth 466 trillion Coles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 98,847 Coles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sharing vacation pictures requires written consent from the entire beach resort, prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, Operator Artella is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, and a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Atelier Valley's national animal is the Puni, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Akademia.

Atelier Valley is ranked 202,833^rd in the world and 7,802^nd in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -1.26 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.