The Grumpy Sage of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.467 billion Mediobogdumians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gariannonum. The average income tax rate is 57.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 8,124 trillion Pizza Slices a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 285,384 Pizza Slices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

When flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!", spiritual tourists meditate in the ruins of Mediobogdumian cathedrals, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, and heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Mediobogdum's national animal is the Gyr Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Violetism.

Mediobogdum is ranked 2,303^rd in the world and 18^th in the West Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 416.79 kickbacks per hour.