The Kingdom of Valongo is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by William II with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 816 million valongoans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monte D'Ouro. The average income tax rate is 47.1%.

The frighteningly efficient valongoan economy, worth 99.4 trillion coroas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 121,793 coroas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

World leaders often feel uncomfortable when William II tries to recruit them into selling cosmetics, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valongo's national animal is the maned wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valongo is ranked 273,001^st in the world and 970^th in Carcassonne for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.