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>>20679793
Seems unlikely.
They, and evidently everyone else on the planet, would have to live at the North Pole, and the planet would have to push up against the "edge" of the universe continuously.
Otherwise, the planet wouldn't block the view of all the stars.
Also, one of the possible consequences of 4th-dimensional space-time being curved (i.e. Einstein's special relativity) is that the universe is finite and unbounded, like the 2D surface of our 3D planet.
Space-time curvature could imply that our universe is the 3D surface of a 4D hypersphere, and as such, if you go far enough in one direction, you'll end up where you started.
So, to me, special relativity precludes the universe having an edge.

This is also dangerously close to the idea of the planet Krikkit in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
Only there, a cloud of asteroids blocked their view of the rest of the universe, until it didn't one day.

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?