The Fiefdom of Ed Gein is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 13.214 billion Ed Geinians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plainfield Wisconsin. The average income tax rate is 25.3%.

The very strong Ed Geinian economy, worth 695 trillion mommas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 52,658 mommas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market, farting etiquette is taught in schools, a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Ed Gein's national animal is the graverobber.

Ed Gein is ranked 5,207^th in the world and 9^th in Gypsy Lands for Most Primitive, scoring 120.99 on the Scary Big Number Scale.