The New United Kingdom of Middleden is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Queen Josephine with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 8.021 billion Middledeners have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 14.3%.

The very strong Middledener economy, worth 562 trillion Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 70,110 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech, the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Middleden's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Anglican.

Middleden is ranked 126,563^rd in the world and 1^st in The United Federation for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 603.28 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.