The United States of Midisudalis is a huge, genial nation, notable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 754 million Midisudalisians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durran. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.4%.

The powerhouse Midisudalisian economy, worth 53.2 trillion hriebels a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 70,561 hriebels, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 364,524 per year while the poor average 7,430, a ratio of 49.1 to 1.

Kidnapping has become the latest get-rich-quick scheme, minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, and a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat". Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Midisudalis's national animal is the seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Midisudalis is ranked 239,976^th in the world and 100^th in Forest for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 28.87 on the Bus Surprisal Index.