The Heroic Dose of Keep Your Eyes Open is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its public floggings, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 15.746 billion Keep Your Eyes Openians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mush City. The average income tax rate is 60.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Keep Your Eyes Openian economy, worth 399 trillion Fugazis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,367 Fugazis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Coalition governments are essential to passing new laws, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Keep Your Eyes Open's national animal is the Fugazi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Keep Your Eyes Open is ranked 153,345^th in the world and 6^th in Taiwan for Highest Poor Incomes, with 23,622.06 Standard Monetary Units.