The Overseas Province of Midsummer Islands is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 18.441 billion Midsummer Islanders are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The very strong Midsummer Islands economy, worth a remarkable 1,130 trillion scudoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 61,321 scudoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 177,593 per year while the poor average 16,779, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Midsummer Islands's national animal is the sea turtle, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Midsummer Islands is ranked 115,280^th in the world and 3^rd in Islands Union for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,451.87 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.