The Grumpy Old Pumpkin of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.704 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gariannonum. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 7,048 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 285,311 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government spending has hit an all-time low, citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, and frat-house partying has become the national pastime. Crime is a major problem. 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 304,426^th in the world and 3,664^th in the West Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -17.13 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.