The Confederacy of Unified Realms of Middle Earth is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 203 million Middle Earthers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Endórëan economy, worth 12.7 trillion tamgas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 62,480 tamgas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, students eagerly await homework from their gaming class, ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, and war vets look after war animals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Unified Realms of Middle Earth's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Unified Realms of Middle Earth is ranked 37,538^th in the world and 10^th in Lesbian for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.