The Fantastic Leaping of DeSpencers Ghost is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 48.427 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 10,324 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 213,205 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The key to a long musical career is government contracts, people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals, in the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight, and raccoons are plump and satiated. 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 517^th in the world and 1^st in Universal Dream Network for Largest Populations, with 48.4 billion capita.