Population | 3.366 billion |
Currency | snail |
Animal | owl |
The Republic of Watching-AndDreaming is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.366 billion Watching-AndDreamingians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Watching-AndDreamingian economy, worth 247 trillion snails a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Soda Sales. Average income is 73,675 snails, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 276,387 per year while the poor average 13,725, a ratio of 20.1 to 1.
Talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, tens of thousands of Watching-AndDreamingians rock the night away at the annual SuperLob, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, and wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Watching-AndDreaming's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.
Watching-AndDreaming is ranked 226,988th in the world and 66th in Fukuoka for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 32.22 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, tens of thousands of Watching-AndDreamingians rock the night away at the annual SuperLob.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, commercial breaks often lead to nervous breakdowns.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, money grows on trees.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, one complaint of Watching-AndDreaming's new periodic table is it's easy to confuse fearlessleaderium with gloriousleaderium.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, the national defense strategy is a little floppy.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, customs officials often double as wedding officiants.
- : Following new legislation in Watching-AndDreaming, invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie.