The Socialist People's Union of Midterra is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Matteo Tolensese with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.779 billion Esperidəns are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rome. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient midterran economy, worth a remarkable 1,735 trillion Esprils a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 256,044 Esprils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers, every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame, jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, and Matteo Tolensese is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Midterra's national animal is the striped wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Midterra is ranked 1,278^th in the world and 8^th in The Leftist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 161.48 law-abiding acts per hour.