The Automated Systems' Union of Midterra is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Union's Popular Committee with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cheerful population of 8.901 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 2,588 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 290,840 e-Sprils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings, worship days have replaced sick days, arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, and most ambassadors from Midterra retire only a few years after being appointed. 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 2,071^st in the world and 14^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 261 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.