The Republic of Edelvveiss is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sherlock Drang with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.866 billion Edelvveissers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pevenelleberg. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Edelvveissian economy, worth 69.2 trillion Svvacts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 24,130 Svvacts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination", children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, and protecting the land is holey work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Edelvveiss's national animal is the Edelvveisstisch Moorland Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Edelvveiss is ranked 151,462^nd in the world and 22^nd in Kyodeia for Largest Populations, with 2.87 billion capita.