The Empire of Edresty is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Her Excellency Selenya Vale with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 1.485 billion Edrestyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capra. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Edrestyian economy, worth 232 trillion golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 156,435 golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A bureaucratic fight over EIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, "Her Excellency Selenya Vale got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, and the World Empire Games have been won again by Edresty as no other country cares enough to compete. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Edresty's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Edresty is ranked 317,339^th in the world and 1,402^nd in Europeia for Rudest Citizens, with 7.79 insults per minute.