The Silver Hammer of Maxwell Edison is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 27.386 billion Maxwell Edisonians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Maxwell Edisonian economy, worth 356 trillion Silver Hammers 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 Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 13,033 Silver Hammers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maxwell Edison's national animal is the Rose and Valerie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maxwell Edison is ranked 191,729^th in the world and 5^th in Hippiedom for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 675.04 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.