The Loving Couple of WatchingAnd-Dreaming is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.355 billion WatchingAnd-Dreamingians 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.6%.

The frighteningly efficient WatchingAnd-Dreamingian economy, worth 842 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 114,528 snails, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes, foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing WatchingAnd-Dreamingian jobs, shouting contests are an important part of government job interviews, and jaywalking is punishable by public flogging. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. WatchingAnd-Dreaming's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

WatchingAnd-Dreaming is ranked 25,039^th in the world and 3^rd in Lewisham Library for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,937.97 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.