The Realm of Mittland is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Rikskansler Astrid Ehrenkrona with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 919 million Mittlanders hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sveafors. The average income tax rate is 43.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mittlander economy, worth 105 trillion Riksdalers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 114,396 Riksdalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, the endangered saltwater humpback deer is only seen in captivity programs, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Mittland's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mittland is ranked 75,309^th in the world and 583^rd in Europe for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 394.91 on the Clooney Contribution Index.