The Grumpy Sage of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.911 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 58.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 8,415 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 291,081 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, in its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and cremation is compulsory for the deceased. 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 329,744^th in the world and 2,653^rd in the West Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -18.04 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.