Imagine a country where the politics predominantly revolves around keyboards.
Military chief to president: "Sir. Have you seen Russia trying to steal our Topre?"
President: "Can you confirm this?"
Military Chief: "Yes sir! We have full aerial. Topre."
President: "NUKE EM. NO BODY steals OUR Topre."
Of course, the president would have to be demik. Looking out for our Topre.
We define socioeconomic status by the keyboard that citizens use. The poor have membranes and they can get gov support to get Topre.
The dollar is valued against the MSRP of an average of the most known keyboards... HHKB, 87U, model M, etc. No longer the big mac index but the "Topre index" to value how expensive products are in a country.
There would be a second NSA... the National Switch Agency trying to come up with - highly classified of course - new switches with supreme properties that other countries can only dream off.