The Socialist Republics of Mirton is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.577 billion Mirtons are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Education are also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mirtonabad. The average income tax rate is 47.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Mirton economy, worth 287 trillion Gilds 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 black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 27,194 Gilds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, the military is plagued with unethical researchers, untold millions of Gilds are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, and forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mirton's national animal is the Phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Mirton is ranked 163,015^th in the world and 5,308^th in Balder for Most Primitive, scoring -61.41 on the Scary Big Number Scale.