The Republic of Edisonia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 19.773 billion Edisonians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Edisonian economy, worth a remarkable 6,898 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 348,898 dollars , but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,548,176 per year while the poor average 14,812, a ratio of 172 to 1.

A typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job, and the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Edisonia's national animal is the chimp , which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Edisonia is ranked 10,247^th in the world and 541^st in Balder for Largest Governments, scoring 35.81 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.