The Misspelled Dictatorship of Thomas Midly Jr is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Thomas Midgley Jr with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.746 billion Peasants of Thomas Midgley Jr 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Underground Fort Midgley. The average income tax rate is 45.3%.

The all-consuming Thomas Midgley's Peasant economy, worth a remarkable 1,991 trillion Midgleys 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. 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 an impressive 135,049 Midgleys, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Card collectors duel to the death, the government nonchalantly sells old nukes to other countries, aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice, and the official government position is that "we didn't see nothin'". Crime is a major problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Thomas Midly Jr's national animal is the NaN, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sacrifices for Thomas.

Thomas Midly Jr is ranked 1,681^st in the world and 1^st in The United Puns for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 16,596.12 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.