The Automated Systems' Union of Midterra is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Union's Popular Committee with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, cheerful population of 9.022 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 2,655 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 294,376 e-Sprils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, security reviews double as political propaganda, Midterra's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques. 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 332,651^st in the world and 828^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.