The Rogue Nation of Edgemaxxia is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 50 million Edgemaxxians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Edgemaxxian economy, worth 1.24 trillion Great British Stoneses 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 24,896 Great British Stoneses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied gnortle 2, and extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals. Crime is totally unknown. Edgemaxxia's national animal is the gnortle 2, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Edgemaxxia is ranked 216,077^th in the world and 254^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 265.37 on the Gilded Widget Scale.