The Sleeping puppet of Not a Sleeper is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Yawn with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, smutty television, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.979 billion Sleepers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt 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 67.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Asleep economy, worth a remarkable 5,961 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 351,085 Beds, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

A video of Yawn wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, kindhearted Sleepers generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, and the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion. 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 51,028^th in the world and 107^th in Nerdlandia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 67.88 Effective Tax Rate.