The United Socialist States of Eden Novae is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 672 million Eden Novaeans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unity. The average income tax rate is 63.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Eden Novaean economy, worth 47.7 trillion digicredits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 70,991 digicredits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment, and EpiPen sales have skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown. Eden Novae's national animal is the white griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Eden Novae is ranked 40,822^nd in the world and 965^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 740.12 pounds of wildlife per square mile.