The Protectorate of Midway DPR is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, avowedly heterosexual populace, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 443 million Midway DPRians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.1%.

The very strong Midway DPRian economy, worth 21.3 trillion 4th Edition Trench Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Soda Sales. Average income is 48,164 4th Edition Trench Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 178,267 per year while the poor average 9,165, a ratio of 19.4 to 1.

Imprisonment is the leading cause of disownment, Eckie-Ecola has declared that their soda poop is The Real Thing, tourism is a euphemism for committing crime in international waters, and the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points. Crime is a serious problem. Midway DPR's national animal is the Black Spotted Tabby Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Midway DPR is ranked 301,806^th in the world and 14^th in New Region oasis for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7.8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.