The Fantastic Leaping of DeSpencers Ghost is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, compulsory vegetarianism, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 36.434 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, outspoken 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 98.9%.

The powerhouse DeSpencers Ghostian economy, worth a remarkable 7,422 trillion dreams a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 203,722 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, the fattest folk in DeSpencers Ghost look to be the happiest ones, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, and fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets. 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 237,030^th in the world and 24^th in Universal Dream Network for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,240.94 Standard Monetary Units.