The Free Land of Portals Edge Magazine is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, devout population of 15.428 billion Portals Edge Magazineans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Portals Edge Magazinean economy, worth 483 trillion doughnuts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Tourism, Soda Sales, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 31,336 doughnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown. Portals Edge Magazine's national animal is the squid.

Portals Edge Magazine is ranked 111,359^th in the world and 5,593^rd in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 80.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.