The Watchfires of Double-wide is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, digital currency, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 22.076 billion Double-wideans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 33.6%.

The all-consuming Double-widean economy, worth a remarkable 1,902 trillion Kraft mac and cheeses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 86,170 Kraft mac and cheeses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, parachutes are considered optional with the newest line of jet fighters, and forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Double-wide's national animal is the tapeworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Double-wide is ranked 84,385^th in the world and 1^st in Ayn Rand for Most Corrupt Governments, with 19.44 kickbacks per hour.