The Sleeping puppet of Not a Sleeper is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Yawn with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.958 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, 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 69.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Asleep economy, worth a remarkable 6,002 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 353,942 Beds, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers, policies are debated via video essays and tier lists, and throwing garbage out of your house's front window makes it legally someone else's problem. 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 91,343^rd in the world and 202^nd in Nerdlandia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,045.32 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.