The Loving Couple of -Watching-And Dreaming- is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, compulsory military service, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 7.348 billion -Watching-And Dreaming-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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.4%.

The frighteningly efficient -Watching-And Dreaming-ian economy, worth 724 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 98,569 snails, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, children listen incredulously when their grandparents explain what a "running river" is, and surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. -Watching-And Dreaming-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

-Watching-And Dreaming- is ranked 56,536^th in the world and 2^nd in ACA for Most Developed, scoring 75.53 on the Human Development Index.