The Automated Zombie Union of Midterra is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Union's Popular Committee with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 8.889 billion esperids 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 Magna Roma. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient esperidian economy, worth a remarkable 2,581 trillion e-Sprils 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 290,457 e-Sprils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, and people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations. 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 509^th in the world and 5^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 99.12 on the Human Development Index.