The Fantastic Leaping of DeSpencers Ghost is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 48.5 billion DeSpencers Ghostians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of DeSpencer. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The all-consuming DeSpencers Ghostian economy, worth an astonishing 10,354 trillion dreams a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 213,498 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties, pop stars who make it big overseas are hailed as economic heroes, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, and DeSpencers Ghostians teach life's not worth a damn 'til you can shout out 'I am what I am'. Crime is totally unknown. DeSpencers Ghost's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

DeSpencers Ghost is ranked 329,578^th in the world and 13^th in Universal Dream Network for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 1,921.49 Standard Monetary Units.