The Grumpy Old Grinch of Mediobogdum is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by His Immaculate Munchiness with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ritual sacrifices, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.66 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 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mediobogdumian economy, worth a remarkable 6,700 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 283,189 Pizza Slices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, home renovation projects take decades to complete, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. 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 290,834^th in the world and 3,871^st in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 25.87 law-abiding acts per hour.