The Loving Couple of Watching-AndDreaming is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.375 billion Watching-AndDreamingians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Watching-AndDreamingian economy, worth 595 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 80,772 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 238,047 per year while the poor average 21,566, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Gay men commonly complain about their time of the month, computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens", unemployed butchers line the streets, and community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home. 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 and its national religion is Cards.

Watching-AndDreaming is ranked 49,817^th in the world and 3^rd in Fukuoka for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,961.83 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.