The Fantastic Leaping of DeSpencers Ghost is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 48.371 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 powerhouse DeSpencers Ghostian economy, worth an astonishing 10,320 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 213,353 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors are learning that red tape makes ineffective bandages, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, and being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs. 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 2,819^th in the world and 1^st in Universal Dream Network for Highest Poor Incomes, with 195,309.08 Standard Monetary Units.