The Holy Empire of Middle Ind Afflick is a small, orderly nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 23 million Middle Ind Afflickians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 57.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Middle Ind Afflickian economy, worth 405 billion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 17,640 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending recently hit a new high, organ donation is compulsory, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Middle Ind Afflick's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Middle Ind Afflick is ranked 49,714^th in the world and 31^st in Cumberperry for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4,697.58 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.