The United Socialist States of Midwestern Syndicates is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Earl Browder with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 13.108 billion Midwesterners enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Milwaukee. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Midwesterner economy, worth a remarkable 1,962 trillion Lincoln 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 149,751 Lincoln Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Midwestern Syndicates's national animal is the Prairie Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Midwestern Syndicates is ranked 277,529^th in the world and 277^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Primitive, scoring -302.93 on the Scary Big Number Scale.