The Borderlands of Eden Archipelago is a tiny, cultured nation, notable for its fear of technology, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 9 million Eden Archipelagoans 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 Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Eden Archipelagoan economy, worth 194 billion francs 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 21,662 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, warnings about emergencies are the leading cause of emergency-related injuries, wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons, and betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eden Archipelago's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eden Archipelago is ranked 268,720^th in the world and 176^th in Lesbian for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,843.62 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.