Vale

Vale (officially the Republic of Vale (République du Val in Valois), is a unitary presidential republic, member state of the United States of Kobol on planet Kobol. Vale is the only unitary republic in the United States of Kobol.

Etymology
The name "Val", which comes from the Valois word vallée or valley in English, originally referred to the area around Val d'Or where the Gold River ends up in the Gold Fjord.

Geography
The geography of the Vale is extremely varied. Notable are the northwestern fjords, the Gold Mountains, the flat, low areas near Lucèrne, and the archipelagos. central vale has many lakes and moraines, legacies of the ice age.

The climate varies from north to south and from west to east; a marine west coast climate (Cfb) typical of western Europe dominates in Lucèrne, southernmost part of central Vale and along the west coast of western Vale reaching north to 65°N, with orographic lift giving more mm/year precipitation (<5000 mm) in some areas in western Vale. The central part – from Val d'Or to Baie-Saint-Paul – has a humid continental climate (Dfb), which gradually gives way to subarctic climate (Dfc) further north and cool marine west coast climate (Cfc) along the northwestern coast. A small area along the northern coast east of the North Cape has tundra climate (Et) as a result of a lack of summer warmth. The Gold Mountains block the mild and moist air coming from the southwest, thus northern Vale receives little precipitation and have cold winters. Large areas in the Gold mountains have alpine tundra climate.

The warmest temperature ever recorded in Vale is 38.0 °C in Sainte-Marie. The coldest temperature ever recorded is −52.6 °C in Makadewa. Southwesterly winds further warmed by foehn wind can give warm temperatures in narrow northwestern fjords in winter; Rimouski has recorded 17.9 °C in January and Amos 18.9 °C in February.