The Community of Onlookers is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs and compulsory military service. The cynical population of 3.267 billion Onlookers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Patriam Project Observation Station. The average income tax rate is 31.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Onlooker economy, worth 145 trillion We No Longer Have Need Of Coins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,431 We No Longer Have Need Of Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, and Onlookers has designated Patriam Project Observation Station as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Onlookers's national animal is the All Life Is Sacred, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Onlookers is ranked 211,316^th in the world and 18^th in Patriam for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 30.54 on the Bus Surprisal Index.