The Holy Empire of Edgeia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 271 million Edgeians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Edgeian economy, worth 13.8 trillion Edgings a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 51,039 Edgings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

There's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, and life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Edgeia's national animal is the Smoking badass looking animals, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Edgeia is ranked 80,998^th in the world and 1,925^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 17.49 flags saluted per person per day.