The Grumpy Sage of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, parental licensing program, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.871 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gariannonum. The average income tax rate is 59.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 8,403 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 291,083 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions, and the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. 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 272,661^st in the world and 2,277^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.24 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.