The Republic of -WatchingAndDreaming- is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.278 billion -WatchingAndDreaming-ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.3%.

The all-consuming -WatchingAndDreaming-ian economy, worth 207 trillion snails a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,146 snails, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors, the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold, and destitute athletes are forced to train in the street. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -WatchingAndDreaming-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

-WatchingAndDreaming- is ranked 167,675^th in the world and 2^nd in Steam for Largest Populations, with 2.28 billion capita.