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The County of Middleseaxan is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Earl Quin Dwight with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.807 billion Middleseaxanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brentford. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The all-consuming Middleseaxanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,604 trillion Egabian Pounds 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 large, well-organized black market in Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 85,315 Egabian Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", devotion to God is only skin-deep, and clothed men and nude women illustrate the stark contrasts in the nation's equality laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Middleseaxan's national animal is the ox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anglican.

Middleseaxan is ranked 21,094^th in the world and 1^st in The Soliss Core for Largest Populations, with 18.8 billion capita.