TBS' latest show borrows its title from economics. In that context, the misery index is used for measuring the economic health of a country. Specifically, it uses unemployment rates, consumer prices, and inflation rates to help determine how the average citizen fares financially.

In 2016, Venezuela had the highest misery index and Japan had the lowest, for example. But on Jameela's new show, you can forget all the politics and economics. 

The "Misery Index," as the show employs it, is a ranking system created by a team of therapists — and it's a key instrument in the game show's premise.

According to TBS, The Misery Index will feature two teams each episode. Each team will consist of one contestant and two Impractical Jokers (comics from The Tenderloins comedy troupe and stars of their own truTV series). Together, the team is tasked with "attempting to rate hilarious and miserable life-events on a scale of 1-100." That scale is this show's eponymous Misery Index. 

In fact, the show is actually based on a card game called "S--t Happens," which was created by Monk and The Good Cop creator Andy Breckman. The card game has one goal and one goal only: to rank hilariously crappy events "from the least sh--ty to the absolute sh--tiest."

The game breaks down the Misery Index in a handy diagram that ranges from 0-100, pictured below. A "10" is where experiences like enemas go, while chronic insomnia is considered about a "50." The pinnacle of misery, as this index would have it, is "Surgeon amputates wrong leg," which is ranked the maximum points of 100.