The Republic of Eden Basin is a large, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 198 million Eden Basinians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 15.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Eden Basinian economy, worth 9.15 trillion lire 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 46,206 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime is almost non-existent. Eden Basin's national animal is the penguin, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Eden Basin is ranked 274,183^rd in the world and 54^th in Benigtopia for Largest Black Market, with 88.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.