The Free Land of Waking Dream is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 42.985 billion Waking Dreamians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Social Policy, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dream Harbour. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Waking Dreamian economy, worth a remarkable 5,425 trillion dreams a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,217 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, and many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations. Crime is totally unknown. Waking Dream's national animal is the snow lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Waking Dream is ranked 11,570^th in the world and 3^rd in Universal Dream Network for Highest Poor Incomes, with 117,286.33 Standard Monetary Units.