The Best Bartenders of Spooky17 is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Lloyd with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.558 billion Spooky17ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Spooky17ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,899 trillion marks a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,721 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, Lloyd has promised 'power to the puppies', the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, and the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky17's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Spooky17 is ranked 310,517^th in the world and 38^th in Pallaith for Safest, scoring 10.6 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.