The Armed Republic of Rune Midgar is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Ur-Dragon with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.306 billion Rune Midgarians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dragon Temple. The average income tax rate is 78.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Rune Midgarian economy, worth 346 trillion Dragon dollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 104,716 Dragon dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Rune Midgarian language, diaper sales are up, and there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rune Midgar's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Dragonoph.

Rune Midgar is ranked 14,204^th in the world and 775^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,421.05 on the Gilded Widget Scale.