The Federal Republic of Midlona is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Harris Lorden with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 6.021 billion Midlonans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Gailen. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Midlonan economy, worth 812 trillion Deoughs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 134,960 Deoughs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 530,068 per year while the poor average 23,351, a ratio of 22.7 to 1.

No one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, the statue in the Yoo Plaza has a solar panel for a hat, and conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Midlona's national animal is the seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Midlona is ranked 268,141^st in the world and 17^th in United Right for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.99 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.