The Watchfires of Gone Fishin is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its closed borders, zero percent divorce rate, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 21.707 billion Gone Fishinians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.8%.

The powerhouse Gone Fishinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,492 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 68,778 $$s, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 216,787 per year while the poor average 16,681, a ratio of 13.0 to 1.

Talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, and organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gone Fishin's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gone Fishin is ranked 64,637^th in the world and 1^st in Fishmongers for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,989.83 on the Gilded Widget Scale.