The Sleeping puppet of Not a Sleeper is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Yawn with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 16.881 billion Sleepers 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 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 67.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Asleep economy, worth a remarkable 5,884 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 348,591 Beds, with the richest citizens earning 7.8 times as much as the poorest.

School nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, the government is flooded with compensation requests, ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto Asleep beaches, and pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil. 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 169,147^th in the world and 116^th in Nerdlandia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 211.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.