The Republic of Middle Pitburn is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 636 million Middle Pitburnians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Middle Pitburnian economy, worth 56.8 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 89,235 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Middle Pitburn's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Middle Pitburn is ranked 234,253^rd in the world and 7,644^th in The East Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -11.83 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.