The Grumpy Sage of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and notable for its fear of technology, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.877 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 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 8,391 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 290,579 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, the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita, people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up, and the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful. 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 3,657^th in the world and 37^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 290,579.15 Standard Monetary Units.