The United Kingdom of Edoardienne is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 354 million Edoardienneans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rouvlones. The average income tax rate is 44.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Edoardiennean economy, worth 25.6 trillion Ganceuillexes a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,441 Ganceuillexes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, and calling dibs is an unalienable right. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Edoardienne's national animal is the Swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Edoardienne is ranked 38,706^th in the world and 60^th in Astoria for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 768.72 on the Clooney Contribution Index.