The Fourth Era Kingdom of Middle Earth is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Aragorn II with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 24.231 billion Middle Earthians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Minas Tirith. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Middle Earthian economy, worth a remarkable 2,923 trillion Kings Coins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,653 Kings Coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 374,268 per year while the poor average 29,946, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

Private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, the nation's image rights are the strictest in the world, mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies, and government buildings are being cleansed for anything that might have racist connotations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Middle Earth's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Elfism.

Middle Earth is ranked 30,609^th in the world and 2^nd in Peaceful Region for Most Corrupt Governments, with 70.87 kickbacks per hour.