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The Commonwealth of Valhelmry

“United, Socialism shall rend down the old & bring new!”

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The Commonwealth of Valhelmry is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 596 million Valhelmryians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valhelmry City. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Valhelmryian economy, worth 27.6 trillion Valhelmrian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 46,311 Valhelmrian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, feeling like a winner comes at a price, Valhelmryian military drills look more like joint-The Frontier Sea exercises than anything else, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Valhelmry's national animal is the Aquila Chrysaetos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Valhelmry is ranked 295,509^th in the world and 1,063^rd in The Frontier Sea for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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Endorsements Received: 10 » Pretiosa, Diatian Isles, Suvmia, Mornala, Cathendale, Sesakvo, Hornmoguelesland, The New Oaxaca, Futurist State of Agladnare, and Francanada.