The Most Serene Republic of Ghost 5 is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.673 billion Ghost 5ians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ghost 5ian economy, worth 76.8 trillion Ghosts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 16,424 Ghosts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ghost 5's national animal is the Ghost, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ghost 5 is ranked 55,831^st in the world and 3^rd in Ninja for Nicest Citizens, with 17.01 average smiles per day.