The State of Great Watch is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 35.782 billion Great Watchians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 9.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Great Watchian economy, worth a remarkable 1,153 trillion betales a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,245 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Gambling is outlawed, Great Watch has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Great Watch in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Watch's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Great Watch is ranked 202,468^th in the world and 1^st in Saint Christopher for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 29,053.07 Standard Monetary Units.