The Empire of Edratheal is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 817 million Edrathealians 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 relatively small, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Administration, although Defense, Spirituality, and Education are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lockwood City. The average income tax rate is 14.0%.

The very strong Edrathealian economy, worth 56.0 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 68,520 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place, the only crimes that get investigated are doughnut heists, major internet servers have acquired citizenship, and beloved cartoon icon Mikkey Monkey writhes after eating Credits. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Edratheal's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Edratheal is ranked 103,043^rd in the world and 103^rd in Saint Osmund for Most Developed, scoring 61.11 on the Human Development Index.