The Distraction of Hey Look Over There is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 2.571 billion Hey Look Over Thereans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 40.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hey Look Over Therean economy, worth 135 trillion distractions a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,639 distractions, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, and street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hey Look Over There's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hey Look Over There is ranked 99,388^th in the world and 1^st in Union of Metropolitan Socialist States for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,348.87 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.