The Red High Athelingric of Valoptia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Leofric Frost with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, soft-spoken computers, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.201 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, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. 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 2,046 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 487,122 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,537,191 per year while the poor average 117,943, a ratio of 13.0 to 1.

The importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, sprinters achieve their personal bests only when the Olympic Team recruiters come calling, AI citizens are criticized for being robotic, and the caged-bird trade is singing. 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 1,112^th in the world and 24^th in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 167.94 law-abiding acts per hour.