The Federal Republic of Free Valiva is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 571 million Free Valivans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Free Valivan economy, worth 59.4 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,037 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody likes bad boys any more, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, and police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Free Valiva's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free Valiva is ranked 28,213^th in the world and 743^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 39.81 flags saluted per person per day.