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The Protectorate of Midway DPR is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 371 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 relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.1%.

The thriving Midway DPRian economy, worth 18.1 trillion 4th Edition Trench Dollars a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Soda Sales. Average income is 48,862 4th Edition Trench Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 209,043 per year while the poor average 7,323, a ratio of 28.5 to 1.

War memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, the economy is green and the air is black, and the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers. Crime is a 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 275,979^th in the world and 16^th in New Region oasis for Highest Poor Incomes, with 7,323.34 Standard Monetary Units.