The Grumpy Old Grinch of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.734 billion Mediobogdumians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gariannonum. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 6,727 trillion Pizza Slices a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 283,468 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in the West Pacific, and there's more vermin than ever on the metro. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive. Mediobogdum's national animal is the Gyr Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Violetism.

Mediobogdum is ranked 260,802^nd in the world and 3,239^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.02 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.