The Kingdom of St Edmund is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Harold and the Witan with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 38.196 billion St Edmundans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saintedmundsport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.1%.

The all-consuming St Edmundan economy, worth a remarkable 5,381 trillion marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 140,886 marks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 849,127 per year while the poor average 10,513, a ratio of 80.8 to 1.

Collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, books are so highly regarded in St Edmund that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. St Edmund's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Christianity.

St Edmund is ranked 4,670^th in the world and 1^st in Conservative Paradise for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 19,652.76 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.