The Federal Republic of Edison Culver is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 27.346 billion Culverians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 87.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Edison Culverian economy, worth a remarkable 3,353 trillion Credits a year, is highly 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 122,639 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, and several inches are being added to first class seating. 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 5,873^rd in the world and 295^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 155 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.