The Empire of Mittero is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Karl Friedrich VIII with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, flagrant waste-dumping, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.892 billion Mitteroans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Old Mittero. The average income tax rate is 81.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mitteroan economy, worth 752 trillion Reichsthalers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 193,316 Reichsthalers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Workers have their fruitcake and eat it too, businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, dinosaur breeders have a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time in Mittero, and Mittero's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mittero's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Church of Mittero.

Mittero is ranked 6,420^th in the world and 162^nd in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 501.72 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.