The City-State of Edamant is a mammoth, pleasant nation, ruled by Viscountess Hawke with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 7.92 billion Edamantians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkwall. The average income tax rate is 20.9%.

The strong Edamantian economy, worth 461 trillion lyris a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 58,268 lyris, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

When their backs are against the walls Edamantians look out for gay men, the weather is the nation's most risqué topic of conversation, national foreign policy involves significant amounts of hand wringing, and an eye for an eye leaves Edamant blind. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Edamant's national animal is the bloodhound, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is The Chantry.

Edamant is ranked 91,589^th in the world and 11^th in Wysteria for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 44.83 on the Kitten Softness Rating.