The Federal Republic of United States of Medford is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President George Amah with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 9.971 billion Medfordians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Newice. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Medfordian economy, worth a remarkable 2,046 trillion Medford Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 205,272 Medford Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Warfare increasingly resembles a video game, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for United States of Medford, planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color", and hordes of tourists are ruining the environment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United States of Medford's national animal is the Medford, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church Of Medford.

United States of Medford is ranked 76,216^th in the world and 3,140^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,831.56 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.