The Sleeping puppet of Not a Sleeper is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Yawn with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.963 billion Sleepers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sleeping City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Asleep economy, worth a remarkable 6,011 trillion Beds a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 354,417 Beds, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index, airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room, and voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Not a Sleeper's national animal is the Sloth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Nighttime.

Not a Sleeper is ranked 330,104^th in the world and 261^st in Nerdlandia for Safest, scoring 3.15 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.