The United Socialist States of Midwatch is a fledgling, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 5 million Midwatchians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 43.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Midwatchian economy, worth 52.8 billion Lunes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 10,557 Lunes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Midwatch will pay them to stop, people are left scratching their heads at the government's decisions, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Midwatch's national animal is the Gazelle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Midwatch is ranked 225,881^st in the world and 2,978^th in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.26 kickbacks per hour.