The Federal Republic of Edison Culver is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 32.607 billion Culverians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Culver City. The average income tax rate is 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Edison Culverian economy, worth a remarkable 3,965 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,617 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

To say that military robots are inclined towards violence is offensive, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, and there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Edison Culver's national animal is the Deathclaw, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Edison Culver is ranked 323,602^nd in the world and 1,640^th in the Outback for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13.12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.